Re: Fonts providing emojis?
On 18/03/14 22:38, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> What Debian font packages provide emojis?
"apt-file" search and "apt-cache search"
give nothing.
Fortunately fontology is a hobby so I know it's part of Symbola.
> At least, thats what i
> think they are. Ive seen messages with little rectangular boxes with
> "01f 44d" and "01f 1e7" in them, and some googling suggests these are
> thumbs-up signs and things like that. How doe i get these to
> display?
>
> (Also how do i look these up? Literally. I google and get a bunch of
> random things, without very much work. If I know its some kind of
> font, what do i type? "01f 1e7 codepoint" or "01f 1e7 unicode" don't
> work.)
Type in what? A search engine to find it?
https://www.google.com/search?q=emojis+filetype%3Attf
Hint: https://www.google.com/search?q=Symbola+filetype%3Attf
:)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jen
>
>
curl --header 'Host: raw.github.com' --header 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
(X11; Linux i686; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 Iceweasel/27.0.1'
--header 'Accept:
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8'
--header 'Accept-Language: en-au,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3' --header
'Referer:
https://github.com/tmatz/SymbolaGoomoji.ttf/blob/master/SymbolaGoomoji.ttf'
--header 'Cookie: logged_in=no' --header 'DNT: 1' --header 'Connection:
keep-alive'
'https://raw.github.com/tmatz/SymbolaGoomoji.ttf/master/SymbolaGoomoji.ttf'
-o 'SymbolaGoomoji.ttf' -L
curl --header 'Host: raw.github.com' --header 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
(X11; Linux i686; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 Iceweasel/27.0.1'
--header 'Accept:
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8'
--header 'Accept-Language: en-au,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3' --header
'Referer:
https://github.com/tmatz/SymbolaGoomoji.ttf/blob/master/Symbola.ttf'
--header 'Cookie: logged_in=no' --header 'DNT: 1' --header 'Connection:
keep-alive'
'https://raw.github.com/tmatz/SymbolaGoomoji.ttf/master/Symbola.ttf' -o
'Symbola.ttf' -L
# mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Symbola
# cp Symbola.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Symbola
# mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Symbola
# mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Symbola
# ls /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Symbola
fonts.dir fonts.scale Symbola.ttf
Rinse and repeat for SymbolaGoomoji.ttf
I use and highly recommend fontmatrix - a font manager/viewer/wizard.
Kind regards
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