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[Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI: fonts-noto - "No Tofu" font families with large Unicode coverage

$ apt-cache policy fonts-noto
fonts-noto:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2013-04-11-2
  Version table:
     2013-04-11-2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/universe amd64 Packages

Ie, fonts-noto appears to already be packaged in Ubuntu. On my mako
device with most recent promoted:

$ sudo apt-get install fonts-noto
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fonts-noto
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,631 kB of archives.
After this operation, 6,059 kB of additional disk space will be used.

I installed this on my device and tested if emojis worked. Now I see
rectangles whereas before, I think I just saw nothing. Seems adding this
to the touch seed would be part of the fix, but maybe more needs to be
done.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1269017

Title:
  Emojis not fully supported which results in blank received SMS
  messages

Status in Messaging App:
  Confirmed
Status in “messaging-app” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “ofono” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Android allows for adding emojis[1] to SMS messages. I'm told that iOS
  users are able to see these emojis. Our messaging app should also
  support displaying emojis.

  emojis appear to not requires MMS since when using Google Hangouts in
  the new android, when you add an emoji the hangouts app says 'Sent now
  via SMS'. Two things need to happen:

  1. need to be able to correctly receive SMS messages with arbitrary
  emojis. Currently, on image 120, an SMS with a known emoji, eg, a
  smiley face, will display correctly when it is and is not accompanied
  with text. However, an SMS with an unknown emoji (eg, with a pinata)
  will show up as a blank SMS, even when the SMS has text. At a minimum,
  the text of the message should always be shown, perhaps with an
  'unknown emoji' placeholder

  2. need to be able to send SMS messages with emojis

  [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji

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