In order to fix this in both ubuntu desktop and touch, the only needed thing is to get add the Symbola font from http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Symbola.zip inside ~/.fonts or /usr/share/fonts (I personally tested this also in messaging-app and some webapps).
A version (an outdated one, actually) of the Symbola.ttf is currently shipped in ubuntu in the ttf-ancient-fonts package, that contains a lot of extra things, making the deb quite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.
In order to fix this in both ubuntu desktop and touch, the only needed thing is to get add the Symbola font from http:// users.teilar. gr/~g1951d/ Symbola. zip inside ~/.fonts or /usr/share/fonts (I personally tested this also in messaging-app and some webapps).
A version (an outdated one, actually) of the Symbola.ttf is currently shipped in ubuntu in the ttf-ancient-fonts package, that contains a lot of extra things, making the deb quite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.