Majority of my emoji not showing on RPB3+

lilpkstud

I dont fully understand why my emojis are black/white or a giant box while I can clearly see it on my macbook in dev mode?

Any help of properly downloading an emoji file or how I can show all my emojis?

lavolp3

@lilpkstud Seems to be a browser issue.

Do you have an example?
Where do the emojis come from?

I remember someone else has had the same issue some time ago, and my first suspicion would be that apple uses a certain code for emojis that is not understood by others.

lilpkstud

@lavolp3 I copied and pasted from https://emojipedia.org.

An example is the fire emoji 🔥🔥🔥 https://emojipedia.org/fire/
This specific example will come out as a white box while all my other emoji are in black and white not colored

retroflex

If they are unicode I have seen that different browsers have very different support for symbols and smileys. I think the Electron version that MM is using lacks a lot of code points (symbols).

lilpkstud

@retroflex

So theres no way to display colored emojis or even the fire emoji?
Also would this be an Electron problem or a Raspberry/Raspbian problem?

broberg

@lilpkstud

At first glance it looks like a chromium/linux problem,

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=chromium+emoji+support

lilpkstud

@broberg Thanks for the fast replies!

I will look into the smart mirror this weekend

retroflex

I’ve seen some colored symbols, but don’t know if you can get an overview of those that are working on MM.

lilpkstud

@broberg @retroflex

FIXED!!!

For anyone that has the same issue I was able to fix it by doing the following steps:

Follow this article’s step to download and create font-config
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/enable-color-emoji-linux-google-chrome-noto
Unzip folder from Raspberry Pi’s Download Folder
Open Terminal and type the following:
cp *.ttf ~/.fonts/
fc-cache -v -f
Reboot Raspberry Pi
Verify that you can see emoji (https://eosrei.github.io/emojione-color-font/full-demo.html)

lilpkstud

These were the articles that helped me the most

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/enable-color-emoji-linux-google-chrome-noto

https://raspberrytips.com/install-fonts-raspberry-pi/

https://eosrei.github.io/emojione-color-font/full-demo.html