Bug 480579 - No support for emoji in text annotations
Summary: No support for emoji in text annotations
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: Spectacle
Classification: Applications
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: 23.08.4
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Noah Davis
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Reported: 2024-01-31 02:03 UTC by Ben Daines
Modified: 2024-02-24 22:35 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Ben Daines 2024-01-31 02:03:47 UTC
SUMMARY
When annotating a screenshot, there is no support for emoji characters (or very limited... no proper support anyway) when adding text to a screen shot. 

EXPECTED RESULT
Text annotations should be updated to support emoji characters / fonts.
Comment 1 Noah Davis 2024-01-31 06:48:03 UTC
(In reply to Ben Daines from comment #0)
> SUMMARY
> When annotating a screenshot, there is no support for emoji characters (or
> very limited... no proper support anyway) when adding text to a screen shot. 
> 
> EXPECTED RESULT
> Text annotations should be updated to support emoji characters / fonts.

What do you mean by "no support"? Do you mean emoji characters won't render at all or do you get ugly line art emojis? The latter is an unfortunately a common Linux system configuration issue. Most of the guides I've seen tell you to manually modify ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
Comment 2 Noah Davis 2024-02-09 19:26:16 UTC
comment since one is required for marking as needsinfo
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Comment 4 Ben Daines 2024-02-24 18:44:15 UTC
(In reply to Noah Davis from comment #1)
> (In reply to Ben Daines from comment #0)
> > SUMMARY
> > When annotating a screenshot, there is no support for emoji characters (or
> > very limited... no proper support anyway) when adding text to a screen shot. 
> > 
> > EXPECTED RESULT
> > Text annotations should be updated to support emoji characters / fonts.
> 
> What do you mean by "no support"? Do you mean emoji characters won't render
> at all or do you get ugly line art emojis? The latter is an unfortunately a
> common Linux system configuration issue. Most of the guides I've seen tell
> you to manually modify ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

They do not render at all. If I remember correctly you just get a blank square. Whatever font is being used doesn't seem to have emoji characters. This is despite my having installed emoji fonts that work elsewhere.
Comment 5 Noah Davis 2024-02-24 22:35:16 UTC
(In reply to Ben Daines from comment #4)
> They do not render at all. If I remember correctly you just get a blank
> square. Whatever font is being used doesn't seem to have emoji characters.
> This is despite my having installed emoji fonts that work elsewhere.

Can you give an example of an app that supports emojis, excluding web browsers and apps with custom built-in emojis like Discord? Does Neochat or any other KDE/Qt app support emojis for you?