@whynothugo answering your question from nine months ago... from upstream's documentation, supposedly this is "built from the Twitter Emoji for Everyone artwork with support for ZWJ, skin tone diversity and country flags." However, I don't find this to be the case.
I compared it to the original Twitter Emoji (packaged in the AUR as ttf-twemoji
), and this already supports skin tones and country flags. Further, at least in the terminator
terminal emulator, the original version has emoji in colour, whereas this package is only monochrome. FWIW neither support skin tones and country flags in terminator. I can't see any advantage of this package over ttf-twemoji
, especially given the issues I mentioned earlier.
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Edgemaster commented on 2017-06-08 14:31 (UTC) (edited on 2019-04-16 20:11 (UTC) by Edgemaster)
v12.0.1 of the font is now available, supporting Unicode and Emoji 12 standards.
A manual installation step is required to configure your default system font and install the configuration file.
Note: Usage with fonts that already include emoji codepoints may give inconsistent/broken results, Bitstream Vera Sans is the chosen as the default as it includes no emoji by default. For further details, please see the project's README file for a discussion of the issues.