Make Emoji Work in Linux

Just to correct you, the package name in Fedora is gdouros-symbola-fonts, not gdourus-symbola-fonts

Corrected in the original post. Thanks! :)

Found this when searching for Emoji support for Linux – thanks for the tip!

But now I'm curious about what kind of black magic Linux did to suddenly render these symbols. Maybe, when it finds an unrenderable symbol, it scans through the installed fonts until it finds one that provides that symbol...

It does indeed – glyph substitution has been around in Linux for probably about 10 years if my memory serves me, and http://www.undermyhat.org/blog/2009/09/understanding-font-substitution-in-browsers/ indicates that it’s been present in Firefox for at least 4.

Thank you, With your help, I solved it this way in Linux Mint:

Download http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Symbola.ttf , open it (with the GNOME font viewer), and install it.

Regards

Thank you for this help. After a friend told me about emoji I was searching for a way to do it (ie: a way that I could understand) on my Linux Mint 16 system. Following your advice, I found the font on users.teilar.gr, copied it into my ~/.fonts folder and saw all the symbols as if by magic.

Thank you, thank you xx

For Ubuntu users: sudo apt-get install ttf-ancient-fonts

Thank you Kirsle :)

thanks for the post... fixed firefox rendering issue of emoji in Ubuntu 12.04

I'm guessing that the font renderer had an inotify(7) open on the ~/.fonts folder, so when you put the file in it triggered a rescan which then cascaded to all your open applications using the system font renderer.

Hi there. Thank you for sharing, it's nice to have emojis on Ubuntu. But I wonder, is there a convenient way to input them? I can't find any emoji on character map (Ubuntu 14.04).

For now, I copy paste them from iemoji.com

Cheers!

Hi there. Thank you for sharing, it's nice to have emojis on Ubuntu. But I wonder, is there a convenient way to input them? I can't find any emoji on character map (Ubuntu 14.04).

Hey, ibus-table-emoji (most likely comes with different name in Ubuntu) should help. Asians and scholars nowadays use iBus to type their characters on keyboards (which, as you may surmised, can't fit any meaningful number of those), and it should help with typing in any complex character set. You will have to replace default X's layout control with iBus system though.

Not sure about ibus-table-emoji but it seems to only contain Asian emojis rendered using ASCII characters.

I personally use fcitx and the provided emojis are also only the Asian ones.

The tables can be extended manually, but would need to recompile the tables plugin.

Here's a tentative to get the unicode emojis merged into fcitx-table-other: https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx-table-other/pull/5

💁 I have kitKat 4.4 and I see Google emojis and I want yo see them the way iPhone people do it would be wonderful if you could make a post about that. 😃

Before Google's SMS apps (Hangouts and Messaging) supported emojis, I used Handcent SMS with an Emoji plugin that used the iOS icons. The down side is that last time I checked, Handcent SMS doesn't do well with Group SMS or other "advanced" features.

I don't know of any way to globally replace Android's icons so that all apps would use iOS icons. It would probably need root to do, if possible.

I use Ubuntu 12.04 and I have install ttf-ancient-fonts, but still some of the emojis can't be read. are there any steps that I need to do after install it? and do you know how to get emoji for firefox so I can use it on twitter? thanks :)

On gentoo the package is simply called 'symbola'. So do:

emerge symbola

or

cave resolve symbola -x

for portage and paludis respectively.

Cheers; Emoji support on Linux has always frustrated me. Nice to know that installing Symbola and relying on glyph substitution makes this a pretty painless fix. Worked right away in Ubuntu 12.04; didn't even need to restart my browser (just reload a webpage). Thanks a bunch!

A quick Google shows that Arch Linux provides ttf-symbola in the official repositories so it should be similarly easy (sudo pacman -S ttf-symbola).

Segoe UI doesn't actually have the color emoji in it from Windows 8. They are stored in a separate file called Segoe UI Emoji.

I still don't know if they work in Linux, though.

I've made a full color Unicode 9.0 emoji font for Linux. PPA, AUR, and Gentoo packages available. Details: https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font Install in Ubuntu:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:eosrei/fonts
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fonts-emojione-svginot

I've Ubuntu 12.04, but the repo eosrei doesn't work..

"W: Impossibile recuperare http://ppa.launchpad.net/eosrei/fonts/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found W: Impossibile recuperare http://ppa.launchpad.net/eosrei/fonts/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found E: Impossibile scaricare alcuni file di indice: saranno ignorati o verranno usati quelli vecchi."

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what do i do? im on manjaro (arch) linux

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