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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote : [snap] color emoji not rendered; many bw emoji rendered as boxes

I’ve recently noticed that Chromium no longer can display emoji. All I get are square boxes and some black & white symbols. E.g. https://getemoji.com/3 renders like the screenshot I posted to https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-chromium-browser-deb-to-snap-transition/11179/237.

I'm like 95% sure that this is a recent problem, and that I didn't have it when I first upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10 and to the snapified Chromium.

Note that I don't have fonts-symbola installed, and I do have fonts-not-color-emoji installed. I've also noticed a bunch of

saus. 07 14:08:40 blynas chromium_chromium.desktop[4802]: Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
saus. 07 14:08:40 blynas chromium_chromium.desktop[4802]: Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
saus. 07 14:08:41 blynas chromium_chromium.desktop[4802]: Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
saus. 07 14:08:43 blynas chromium_chromium.desktop[4802]: Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file

messages in journalctl when I first launch chromium.