Bug#1006685: kde-plasma-desktop: KDE does not display Emojis correctly
Package: kde-plasma-desktop
Version: 5:111
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
for several years KDE on Debian seems to be unable to display emojis
correctly. I experience this problem on Debian testing and on Debian stable.
One can reproduce it by running `echo "Heart Face Emoji 🥰"` in Konsole
or by opening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaYoJziCgto in Fireofox or
Konqueror. The emojis will be displayed only as blank rectangles.
The problem does not occur on Ubuntu. It also does not occur when using
Debian/Xfce and when using the Xfce-Terminal from within a Plasma
session. Thus, I can have a Konsole and Xfce-Terminal side by side with
the former showing the problem and the latter not so.
I reproduced the problem by setting up a Debian/Testing in a virtual
machine yesterday.
I tried to set a different font, but to no avail. Maybe I have not tried
hard enough. However, I think Emojis should be displayed properly in the
default configuration.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.16.10 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de:en_GB
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages kde-plasma-desktop depends on:
ii kde-baseapps 4:20.12.0+5.111
ii plasma-desktop 4:5.20.5-4
ii plasma-workspace 4:5.20.5-6
ii udisks2 2.9.2-2+deb11u1
ii upower 0.99.11-2
Versions of packages kde-plasma-desktop recommends:
ii kwin-x11 4:5.20.5-1
ii sddm 0.19.0-3
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+22
Versions of packages kde-plasma-desktop suggests:
ii kdeconnect 20.12.3-2
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