[SRU 🪱] Update to 20200916 (to support missing emojis from unicode 13.1)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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fonts-noto-color-emoji (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Focal |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) |
Bug Description
[ Impact ]
Many new emoji supported by various social platforms are not currently visible in Ubuntu 20.04, because of old font (even though the shipped ICU supports this version).
here's a list for Unicode 13.0 and 13.1:
- https:/
- https:/
[ Test Plan ]
1. After installing the update, visit
https:/
The browser column should match the Google column
2. You can also use the Characters app shipped by default to verify that the emoji seem to work ok.
This sentence should end asking "what do you want?" in the Italian way: 🤌
[ Regression potential ]
Emoji using a different composition not supported by 20.04 may show as multiple icons instead than as a single emoji.
No emoji are shown when they used to be visible.
This is easily comparable using https:/
python3-nototools has no rdepends and the only one Build-Depend is fonts-noto-
The design of some icons has been updated (compare browser with google columns at https:/
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Note: Building the package with focal version of nototools is fine because fonts-noto-
This can be easily checked by diffing the resulting ttf extracting the data with ttx, which is in fact matching (for what it concerns real data).
PPA for testing: https:/
A previous discussion on this was also done as part of bug #1870794
Changed in fonts-noto-color-emoji (Ubuntu Focal): | |
assignee: | nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in fonts-noto-color-emoji (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Wishlist → Medium |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- [SRU] Update to 20201225 (to support unicode 13.1) + [SRU] Update to 20201225 (to support missing emojis from unicode 13.1) |
summary: |
- [SRU] Update to 20201225 (to support missing emojis from unicode 13.1) + [SRU] Update to 20201225 (to support missing emojis from unicode 13.1) 🪱 |
summary: |
- [SRU] Update to 20201225 (to support missing emojis from unicode 13.1) 🪱 + [SRU 🪱] Update to 20201225 (to support missing emojis from unicode 13.1) |
Changed in fonts-noto-color-emoji (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
assignee: | Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) → nobody |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- [SRU 🪱] Update to 20201225 (to support missing emojis from unicode 13.1) + [SRU 🪱] Update to 20201225 (to support missing emojis from unicode 13.0) |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- [SRU 🪱] Update to 20201225 (to support missing emojis from unicode 13.0) + [SRU 🪱] Update to 20201225 (to support missing emojis from unicode 13.1) |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- [SRU 🪱] Update to 20201225 (to support missing emojis from unicode 13.1) + [SRU 🪱] Update to 20200916 (to support missing emojis from unicode 13.1) |
description: | updated |
Thank you for preparing this update.
We last did this kind of thing in Bionic in bug 1788256. I'll bring the test plan forward from there.