Comment 5 for bug 1137630

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A version (an outdated one, actually) of the Symbola.ttf is currently shipped in ubuntu in the ttf-ancient-fonts package, that contains a lot of extra things, making the deb quite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.