Emojis are not shown in ubuntu applications (and phone)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ttf-ancient-fonts (Ubuntu) |
High
|
Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho | ||
| ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) |
Medium
|
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) | ||
| ubuntu-touch-meta (Ubuntu) |
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hi,
As Ubuntu is being ported to tablets and phones, where communication is an important aspect of their fonctionality, I would like to ask whether it would be possible to add the glyphs of the emojis and other symbols, which have been defined in Unicode 6.0 and 6.1 to the Ubuntu font.
If I am correct, the emoticons/emojis are code in Unicode from U+1F600 bis U+1F64F.
However, other symbols like broken heart and others might also be interesting, for example: U+1F493 - U+1F493, U+1F4A1 - U+1F4A6, U+2639 - U+2642,...
For those interested, these glyphs are currently included in the fonts-vlgothic package in the Ubuntu repositories.
Cheers
Related branches
- Sebastien Bacher: Approve on 2014-09-11
- Ken VanDine: Needs Fixing on 2014-09-10
- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (community): Approve on 2014-09-10
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debian/ttf-ancient-fonts-symbola.install (+1/-0)
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- Ubuntu branches: Pending requested 2014-09-10
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summary: |
- RFC: Emojis would be particularly useful for ubuntu-nexus and phone + RFE: Emojis would be useful for ubuntu-nexus and phone |
Alessandro Polverini (polve) wrote : | #2 |
Now that tablet are very popular the use of emoj is encreasing and I was not able to handle those symbols on my ubuntu box.
Fortunately the problem is easily solved installing the public domain font "symbola" as described here:
http://
You can download the full package here: http://
I would ask to include that font in ubuntu by default!
cm-t (arudy) 🦄🏂🌈🎵 (cm-t) wrote : | #3 |
Hi,
I added this bug #1340598 at the ubuntu-keyboard : User should be able to select an emoji trhought a keyboard layout.
This ubuntu-font bug might be a blocker to the end user: Can't see the emoji he select on the keyboard. The user will aslo not be able to see any emoji anywhere until the system font (ubuntu-font) does not support emoji.
It is not a critical bug, but a user might see this as a regression when adopting ubuntu as OS (phone for example).
Librement
Denis Moyogo Jacquerye (moyogo) wrote : Re: [Bug 1137630] Re: RFE: Emojis would be useful for ubuntu-nexus and phone | #4 |
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:53 AM, cm-t arudy <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I added this bug #1340598 at the ubuntu-keyboard : User should be able
> to select an emoji trhought a keyboard layout.
>
> This ubuntu-font bug might be a blocker to the end user: Can't see the
> emoji he select on the keyboard. The user will aslo not be able to see
> any emoji anywhere until the system font (ubuntu-font) does not support
> emoji.
>
That is what fallback fonts are for. If some Unicode characters do not have
glyphs in a the system font, then a font with glyphs for them is used a
fallback.
Of course the font can have those glyphs, but it doesn’t need to for users
to be able to use emojis. This is not a blocker as long as fallback fonts
are available.
--
Denis Moyogo Jacquerye
summary: |
- RFE: Emojis would be useful for ubuntu-nexus and phone + Emojis are not shown in ubuntu applications (and phone) |
Changed in messaging-app: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote : | #5 |
In order to fix this in both ubuntu desktop and touch, the only needed thing is to get add the Symbola font from http://
A version (an outdated one, actually) of the Symbola.ttf is currently shipped in ubuntu in the ttf-ancient-fonts package, that contains a lot of extra things, making the deb quite heavy.
So I think that the package should be probably split in order to make us being able to ship it in the phone (where I think is probably more important) and the desktop.
Adolfo Jayme (fitojb) wrote : | #6 |
As I’ve mentioned over bug 1269017, comment 10:
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It’s not mandatory to use specifically the Symbola font. You could also package and use the Noto Color Emoji free font, as Firefox OS has done. [1][2] (FreeType supports that color font... unless Ubuntu Phone doesn’t use FreeType, of course.)
[1]: https:/
[2]: http://
John McAleely (john.mcaleely) wrote : | #7 |
This impacts save message display on krillin (see dupe)
tags: | added: rtm14 |
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : | #8 |
duplicate of bug #1269017?
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote : | #9 |
I'd wait to set this as a duplicate (at least for all ubuntu) to bug #1269017, as that is more related to the messaging-app, which might fix this issue by its own (by showing images for example, or using a font color such as Noto).
This bug is more related to the whole ubuntu ecosystem to support showing Emoji's properly (and this affects for example browsers, webapps or any other system app).
no longer affects: | messaging-app |
Changed in ttf-ancient-fonts (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho (renatofilho) |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in ttf-ancient-fonts (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : | #10 |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote : | #11 |
Adding Emoji to the Ubuntu font is bug 820034. That isn't necessarily a good idea. However, the problem of "Emojis are not shown in Ubuntu … phone” could be solved in many other ways -- for example, by shipping Symbola or Noto. So this belongs, at least, to ubuntu-touch-meta.
affects: | ubuntu-font-family → ubuntu-touch-meta (Ubuntu) |
Changed in ubuntu-touch-meta (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : | #12 |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
Changed in ubuntu-touch-meta (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Kagetsuki (zero-tsuki) wrote : | #13 |
I'm the leader of the emojidex project https:/
Earendil02 (earendil002) wrote : | #14 |
On my BQ Aquaris 4.5 the emojis are shown, e.g. in Telegram (not coloured as in Android though).
The problem is that you cannot use them in a message: there's no support in the keyboard.
This is a serious lack and IMHO a fix is overdue.
Scott Sweeny (ssweeny) wrote : | #15 |
In Settings -> Language & Text -> Keyboard Layouts make sure that Emoji is enabled, then use the globe icon on the keyboard to switch to that layout when typing a message.
Yuval (yuvilio) wrote : | #16 |
Another possible approach to globally support emojis, is using fontconfig with a patched cairo. Google developer @behdad put in some great legwork with that . Details here:
https:/
I think what's needed is to assess whether the patch works, is viable to be part of ubuntu cairo binaries (or maybe kicked up to the source maintainers), makes sense as the approach to use, etc..
Count me in as another user looking forward to using emojis on my terminal, text editors, etc.
N. W. (nw9165-3201) wrote : | #17 |
Any update?
Michael Letterle (mletterle) wrote : | #18 |
Pinging this issue, it seems like something that would be expected.
Francesco Fumanti (frafu) wrote : | #19 |
Marmuta is working on it for the on-screen keyboard Onboard. It will probably be included in the next minor release of Onboard.
https:/
According to fileformat.info, part of the emoji emoticons are supported in the DejaVu Sans font and the Symbola and LastResort fonts support all the 76 emoticons of the Emoticons Unicode Block. www.fileformat. info/info/ unicode/ block/emoticons /fontsupport. htm
http://
On Ubuntu, the Symbola font is part of the ttf-ancient-fonts package: packages. ubuntu. com/raring/ all/ttf- ancient- fonts/filelist
http://