Only some Emojis appear when using ttf-emojione package in Arch Linux

[doron-cohen]

I haven't go to the reason why but only some of the emojis are displayed right on my Linux machine. This is both on my browser and in terminal. How can I debug this? I saw @maximbaz is the maintainer of this and understood that this is the right place for this issue.

Screenshot of browser

[maximbaz]

AUR page is the right place to ask questions for Arch Linux package 😉

Have you run this command as per the pinned comment?

ln -sf ../conf.avail/75-emojione.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/75-emojione.conf

[doron-cohen]

Thanks! That worked perfectly. I will just note that it will default to view numbers as emojis when viewing websites with no configured font e.g. github.

[maximbaz]

Yep, but that's the issue of those websites, not the font, if you are interested I can point you to an example of the implementation that does it correctly.

[doron-cohen]

Interested. Although I solved it by defining a default font in my browser

[maximbaz]

The trick is to define an emoji font, but only allow it to render a specific set of codepoints, those that are defined as Emoji as per Unicode standard. This way it's guaranteed that emojis are rendered with the emoji font, and everything else is rendered as text.

For example, here's how I made it for Wire app.