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  1. Bug #1137630
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1137630

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Denis Moyogo Jacquerye (moyogo) wrote : Re: [Bug 1137630] Re: RFE: Emojis would be useful for ubuntu-nexus and phone

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.

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Denis Moyogo Jacquerye