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    Majority of my emoji not showing on RPB3+

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      lilpkstud Module Developer
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      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?

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        lavolp3 Module Developer @lilpkstud
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        @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.

        How to troubleshoot modules
        MMM-soccer v2, MMM-AVStock

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          lilpkstud Module Developer @lavolp3
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          @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

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            retroflex Project Sponsor Module Developer
            last edited by

            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).

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              lilpkstud Module Developer @retroflex
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              @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?

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                broberg Project Sponsor @lilpkstud
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                @lilpkstud

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

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

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                  lilpkstud Module Developer @broberg
                  last edited by

                  @broberg Thanks for the fast replies!

                  I will look into the smart mirror this weekend

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                    retroflex Project Sponsor Module Developer
                    last edited by

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

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                      lilpkstud Module Developer
                      last edited by

                      @broberg @retroflex

                      FIXED!!!

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

                      1. 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

                      2. Unzip folder from Raspberry Pi’s Download Folder

                      3. Open Terminal and type the following:
                        cp *.ttf ~/.fonts/
                        fc-cache -v -f

                      4. Reboot Raspberry Pi

                      5. Verify that you can see emoji (https://eosrei.github.io/emojione-color-font/full-demo.html)

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                        lilpkstud Module Developer
                        last edited by

                        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

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