This bug was fixed in the package fonts-noto-color-emoji -
0~20200916-1~ubuntu20.04.1
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fonts-noto-color-emoji (0~20200916-1~ubuntu20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium
* Backport to focal (LP: #1926047):
Take advantage of ICU 66 supporting Unicode 13 to update the emoji font to
the latest version, supporting various new characters.
* debian/control: Downgrade build dependency on nototools 0.2.0
It is not needed for the pure ttf generation from PNGs, while the version
already available in focal is good enough for that.
In fact using a more recent version of nototools (that contains the latest
unicode data) would be needed only for a full build of the emoji package
(that includes medatada such as html pages) or if the sequence check was
enabled. This is not the case for us as we already explicitly disabled it
in debian/rules.
* debian/control: Switch maintainer to ubuntu
fonts-noto-color-emoji (0~20200916-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release
- This major update introduces support for the Unicode 13.1 standard
https://emojipedia.org/google/android-11.0/
https://blog.emojipedia.org/217-new-emojis-in-final-list-for-2021/
* Bump minimum python3-nototools to 0.2.13
* Set required VIRTUAL_ENV variable when building the font
* Bypass sequence checks when building
* Add patch to make build more verbose (Closes: #923621)
-- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <ma...@ubuntu.com> Sun, 25 Apr 2021
06:46:50 +0200
** Changed in: fonts-noto-color-emoji (Ubuntu Focal)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1926047
Title:
[SRU 🪱] Update to 20200916 (to support missing emojis from unicode
13.1)
Status in fonts-noto-color-emoji package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in fonts-noto-color-emoji source package in Focal:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[ Impact ]
Many new emoji supported by various social platforms are not currently
visible in Ubuntu 20.04, because of old font (even though the shipped
ICU supports this version).
here's a list for Unicode 13.0 and 13.1:
- https://emojipedia.org/emoji-13.0/
- https://emojipedia.org/emoji-13.1/
[ Test Plan ]
1. After installing the update, visit
https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
The browser column should match the Google column
2. You can also use the Characters app shipped by default to verify
that the emoji seem to work ok.
This sentence should end asking "what do you want?" in the Italian
way: 🤌
[ Regression potential ]
Emoji using a different composition not supported by 20.04 may show as
multiple icons instead than as a single emoji.
No emoji are shown when they used to be visible.
This is easily comparable using https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-
emoji-list.html where "Google" should match "Browser".
python3-nototools has no rdepends and the only one Build-Depend is
fonts-noto-color-emoji itself, so updating it has no effect either.
Even though in this case is not needed.
The design of some icons has been updated (compare browser with google
columns at https://i.imgur.com/HkA3kOz.jpg), overall the look is
consistent though and given that these are not part of any
documentation or relevant component it's not something that needs an
UFe.
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Note: Building the package with focal version of nototools is fine
because fonts-noto-color-emoji depends on newer version only for tests
and metadata checks which is not needed by our builds.
This can be easily checked by diffing the resulting ttf extracting the
data with ttx, which is in fact matching (for what it concerns real
data).
PPA for testing:
https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/4534
A previous discussion on this was also done as part of bug #1870794
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