Emoji Support

[SimonIT]

What were you doing?

I'm displaying a dashboard with some emojis on it

What did you expect to happen?

The dashboard with emojis are displayed

What happened instead?

The emojis are not displayed but the rectangles for a not found symbol are displayed.
My suggestion is to install noto for the widest support.

Was there an error message displayed? What did it say?

Version of FullPageOS?

0.12.0

Screenshot(s) showing the problem:

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[guysoft]

This is something worth adding. Since emojis are becoming ubiquitous and are part of Unicode.
I tried looking up ways to ship this RaspsberryPi and it seems all suggestions on how to do that are being bashed (tastelessly IMHO) on the Rpi fourms.
Example:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=253484
And:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=287942

It seems the only way suggested I can find is to download manually the fonts and place them in the /home/pi/.fonts folder.
Something along the lines of (taken from the second thread on the rpi forums and repaired):

wget --directory-prefix ~/.fonts https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/raw/main/fonts/NotoColorEmoji.ttf

If you could test if running this command solves your problem, it would help because I could ship that.

[SimonIT]

Yes, that worked perfectly! It also contains more emojis then the fonts-noto-color-emoji package

[guysoft]

Cool. Committed a fix in the the devel branch. If SimonIT is a businesses account or something like that or FullPageOS helps your businesses. Please consider making a donation. I am maintaining this 100% out of my free time as a volunteer, no one is paying me to maintain this this.