Add Flag emojis support (Windows 10)

Pliex

Hello dear Vivaldi-Team and the community, it would be nice, if we can finally post flags in the browser at Windows 10 devices. Of course, it is possible, to send flag emojis, but they do not appear with their colors, but they will appear in text → like this: NO But if you are a Linux user you would see this:

How should we make this, if Windows even don't support this feature?

A.: Implement the feature in the font or write a converter to convert NO to like the Vivaldi Forum.

If you like this idea, give the post a like, that we can show, that we want this feature implemented.

luetage

@Pliex You need to have the Segoe Color Emoji installed to be able to display emoji on Windows 10 and Vivaldi.
edit: ok, I see now, Segoe has no flags. Don’t really know what Vivaldi should do about it though. If you write NO and Vivaldi converts it, it might look like a flag to you, but for everyone using another browser it will just be NO. That’s not a valid solution. Microsoft just needs to add the needed emoji imo.

Pliex

@luetage This font works perfect with the Mozilla Browser, but in Browsers, like Vivaldi, Chrome, Opera and more browser who are based in the Chromium engine, they appear but without colors. This to be honest a half solution. In Firefox, they [the flag emojis] appear with color. This is strange.

Pliex

@luetage You are right, Microsoft need to update the imo. It's ridiculous that Windows have since 2015 no flag emojis.

luetage

@Pliex Can you check what font is used in Firefox to display emoji?

Test here: https://emojipedia.org, pick and emoji and you will see the different variants and then you can compare with the one that displays for you.

As for Microsoft, there seems to have been flag support, but they removed it deliberately ☛ https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-networking/flag-emoji/85b163bc-786a-4918-9042-763ccf4b6c05

Pliex

@luetage In Firefox the flag emojis work with: TwitterColorEmoji and Segoe UI Twitter Font.

In Vivaldi only the TwitterColorEmoji font works, but the colors don't appear. It is only black and white.

My Win-Version: 20H2 (OS Build: 19042.746)

iAN CooG

Maybe Microsoft thinks, like me, emojis are retarded and don't want to waste too much time with them. Normal people use letters to write, not little pictures, cavemen used pictures, we evolved from that form of primitive communication. Sorry to appear harsh but that's what I think about emojis and who use them.

Pesala

@iAN-CooG

luetage

@Gwen-Dragon My opinion is that browsers shouldn’t mess with emoji display anyway, the system should handle it. But ignoring this for a moment, twitter emoji font is open source, so I take it Vivaldi isn’t allowed to use it because it’s a proprietary browser? This would mean both Brave and Chromium could handle it the same way on Windows, should they want to.

iAN CooG

@Pesala I don't know what you mean to tell me with those 2 drawings, say it in english maybe we can understand each other.

LonM

As a workaround, go to https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Flags.html and download the font from the link at the bottom of the page. Once downloaded, double click it and press install. This might allow you to see flag fonts, assuming the website's font stack is set up in a permissive way, which unfortunately does not seem to be the case with this forum.

This font has an open license that "means you are free to use it for personal or commercial purposes, and to redistribute it by itself or as part of a free or commercial software package," - perhaps vivaldi could bundle this?

Pliex

@LonM thank you, it works.