Emoji is broken

ilp0000

Hello

Is it only me that some emojis are shown just a square? They are displayed normally at Firefox.

DoctorG

@ilp0000 All nice for me Windows 11 21H2

Perhaps you have a older Windows and/or missing Segoe Emoji font?

luetage

@ilp0000 Some emoji not displaying would mean your emoji font is outdated. Does Firefox provide its own emoji font on windows, or use the one from the system?

DoctorG

@luetage Firefox on Windows brings its own special font and uses it.

Pesala

@ilp0000 Also missing some emoji here, on Windows 10. I have the Segoe UI Emoji font, version 1.29 installed, which has 12,189 glyphs. The Segoe Emoji font that comes with Windows 11 is version 1.33.

The missing glyphs display in Firefox.

DoctorG

I guess it is not only a incomplete font but a incomplete Unicode table in Windows 10 or older which causes missing emojis. Can (or can not) be fixed by Microsoft, i do not know.

Hadden89

@DoctorG They are sloooooow even to put flags in w11 segoe so I really doubt missing glyphs will be backported to 10 or 8.1 (seems that win7 and 8 only support monochrome emojis); was already asked in feedback hub with very few votes.

DoctorG

@Hadden89 said in Emoji is broken:

seems that win7 and 8 only support monochrome emojis

Yes, that is right. Win 7/8 supports only older Unicode standards.

Hadden89

@DoctorG Fun fact: Emoji flags were asked in italian feedbacks (not by me) but not in the international one.
While I still think is not critical I did a international request

Even if I still prefer they fix the clumsy "start menu" and the dumbed up context menu (tnx, registry editor).

They just add a NEW feature for grouping apps (Beta Channel) in start menu as in w10

ilp0000

@hadden89 @DoctorG @luetage @Pesala Thank you all for your feedback.

Yes, I am using an older Windows, and that must be the reason. But like Firefox, will Vivaldi be able to support emojis in the coming day? Because Vivaldi is THE Vivaldi. Help!

Pesala

I had a look at TwemojiMozilla.ttf in FontCreator, and the Font Properties do not indicate any copyright restrictions. The embedding rights are Installable.

I think all that Vivaldi needs to do is copy the font or at least include a fall-back to use the font if Firefox is installed.

On my blog, the Rocket glyph is replaced with the glyph from the Firefox font, so it is odd that the missing glyphs are not substituted everywhere.

luetage

@Pesala Yeah, but why should Vivaldi? Every user is free to install any emoji font they please. Vivaldi isn’t responsible for the state of fonts installed on a system. Mixing emoji fonts is terrible anyway, you want only one font to display all emoji.

DoctorG

No, Vivaldi will not create a own font.
They wont implement Mozilla fonts and check for all OS if display of Unicode is OK.

ilp0000

I wish Vivaldi will do. Vivaldi, would you?

DoctorG

@ilp0000 Vivaldi can not fix the incomplete Unicode implementation on your older Windows.