Re: Fonts providing emojis?
> On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:19 AM, Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.debian.user@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
That doesnt find anything.
> Hint: https://www.google.com/search?q=Symbola+filetype%3Attf
> :)
That does, but requires me to know the answer already. I guess my question is, "if i have a Twitter message with a rectangular box with "01f 1ey" in it, how do i figure out what that is?"
[snipped]
> # 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.
Thanks for these instructions. Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built package for this in Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely used.
Jen
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