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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This bug report lacks any steps to reproduce. So if you would like to
see Ubuntu catch up, and you are not a font engineer, one thing you can
do to help is to test and describe where the problems are, and ensure
there is exactly one bug report for each of them.

For example, what happens if you copy emojione-android.ttf or
NotoColorEmoji.ttf onto an Ubuntu phone, and then view a page that uses
emoji? <http://emojipedia.org/unicode-8.0/> Are they rendered in color?

If so, do they also show up in color in other apps such as Dekko? If so,
can you type them on the Emoji keyboard? If you can, all that’s required
is packaging the font (ubuntu, tag=needs-packaging) and shipping it
(ubuntu-touch-meta). If you can view them but not type them, it’s a
matter of packaging, shipping, and also changing the keyboard (ubuntu-
keyboard).

If the emoji aren’t rendered in color at all, can you find *any* multi-
color font that works on Ubuntu, when used as a Web font for example? If
you can, it’s four problems: packaging, shipping, typing, and font
fallback (fontconfig).

If no multi-color font seems to work, then as Lalo suggested, the first
problem is deeper, probably in Freetype (freetype). Report it with a
simple test case. Once it’s fixed, re-test the other layers.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1439222

Title:
  Implement emoji in Ubuntu

Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in ubuntu-touch-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  This bug is about implementing emoji display and insertion in Ubuntu,
  desktop and phone.

  I wrote a page about possible ways to implement emoji in Gnu/Linux systems:
  http://probablement.net/txt/emojilinux

  To sum it up:

  * The first thing to do is having the Symbola font (in ttf-ancient-
  fonts) as part of the default installation, so users can see
  monochrome emoji. If I understand, it’s what is being done in bug
  #1137630 (which is about not seeing emoji: Symbola certainly resolve
  it but isn’t a full implementation of emoji as we expect them).

  * The second thing is replacing Symbola with a proper colour emoji
  set, like Emoji One, Noto Color Emoji, or Twemoji. There’s different
  ways to implement this (layered colour font, SVG font, substitution
  with individual SVG files, …) but if I understand correctly comment #6
  in #1137630 FreeType is already compatible with colour fonts! (I will
  update my page)

  * An optional third step would be designing a custom Emoji set. That’s
  more or less bug #820034 even if I’m unsure about it being part of the
  Ubuntu Font Family, even if drawn in stylistically consistent way with
  it.

  * Lastly, we need a system wide UI to browse, pick and insert emoji. I
  added some existing examples on the page; basically, the choice is
  making it only for emoji or part of larger UI for inserting
  characters.

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