Re: How to insert symbols into emails

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 31/01/2024 03:36, Franco Martelli wrote:
> It happens something strange, when I type "crocodile" into the search 
> bar of "kcharselect" I get an empty square visualized, if I click to 
> "Copy to clipboard" button and then paste to Thunderbird I can see the 
> crocodile but not in "kcharselect" … does it depend on installed fonts? 
> Any hints?

Certainly applications should have fallbacks to emoji fonts (depends on 
font rendering libraries) and you need to have fonts installed. Mozilla 
brings its own font. Do you have e.g. fonts-noto-color-emoji (dependency 
of fonts-recommended)?

Concerning the issue with Compose keys, it is a rather low level 
feature, so it should work for applications with proper support of 
Unicode. I have no issue with xterm. Diagnostics:

    setxkbmap -print

and "xev"