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It is a shame that the majority of these won't been seen by common devices. Google has stopped work on their Noto fonts initiative, and modern versions of Andro
by edent 8y ago
It is a shame that the majority of these won't been seen by common devices. Google has stopped work on their Noto fonts initiative, and modern versions of Android are stuck with pre Unicode 10.
Apple has been pretty good at adding Emoji on iOS, but macOS seems to be left behind.
As for Linux... Installing the Unifont gives coverage, but most distros don't seem to have a way to update base level fonts.
I'd love to be proved wrong about any of this. But is seems that the majority of systems don't care because their native scripts are already supported.
- alwillis 8y agoApple has been pretty good at adding Emoji on iOS, but macOS seems to be left behind. The latest macOS version gets emoji updates regularly; it stays in sync with the latest iOS.
- thomasfedb 8y agoEmoji handling on Linux is so upsetting. It should not be this tricky.
- magicalhippo 8y agoI submit that it should: http://baldi.me/blog/emoji-in-sql http://baldi.me/blog/emoji-in-sql
- m6w6 8y agoHilarious.
- Freak_NL 8y agoThat's fine though. On Linux distributions care is usually taken to ensure fonts that cover all languages in common use today, but there is no need to cover every glyph in the standard right from the start. Some Unicode blocks eventually get a default font, some are so specialistic that you have to install a special font, but that's perfectly doable. Newer versions of distributions tend to come with updated versions of the fonts installed, so eventually support will increase.
- abrowne 8y ago> Google has stopped work on their Noto fonts initiative :-( This may be my favorite Google project ever.
- coldtea 8y ago>Apple has been pretty good at adding Emoji on iOS, but macOS seems to be left behind I'd be surprised is there was more than a "between iOS/macOS major versions" discrepancy of their emojis.