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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1439222 Title: Implement emoji in Ubuntu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1439222/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
