Display unicode emoji in UI

[JDsnyke]

Is it possible to view Unicode emoji in the UI?

[JDsnyke]

I have tested this and it appears that Shoes shows a default placeholder instead of the actual emoji. Placed in the window title it appears to be fine, so potentially something wrong somewhere? (Refer to pics)

[ccoupe]

Are the emojis in the font being used? The default fonts from Shoes doesn't have them so you need to specify the correct font name for each element. The 'correct' font will be user and system specific if portability is an issue for you.

[JDsnyke]

Are the emojis in the font being used? The default fonts from Shoes doesn't have them so you need to specify the correct font name for each element. The 'correct' font will be user and system specific if portability is an issue for you.

So following up I've tried different fonts like DejaVuSans and Unicode and gotten no changes at all....

What I used for example is as follows,

emojifont = font "fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf"

para "#{account_name}", font: emojifont, size: "18"

[ccoupe]

DejaVuSans is a Shoes font. You need to use a system font that has emoji's. This should list all the fonts you have on your system.

Shoes.app do
  stack do
    all_fonts = Shoes::FONTS
    all_fonts.each {|ft| para ft}
  end
end

[JDsnyke]

System fonts don't seem to work either (as seen here). Does it work for you when you run it?

[ccoupe]

I don't have fonts with emojis on my Linux system or I don't know their names or the unicode for the glyph because I don't use emojis. What is the font name with the emojis you want to display? what is the \uNNNN string you are using?