Talk:Emoji/Archives/2015/March

What font is needed to see the characters in the charts
I have Segoe Symbol, Segoe Semibold, Symbola 6.05 and Quivira 3.8 and still don't have most of the emoji symbols. What TrueType font does have them? Can anyone with Windows view the tables?. Spellczecher (talk) 01:43, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Microsoft has only just put out an update that adds some emoji support with Segoe UI Symbol, and it's listed as being for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 only, although the new emoji support is said to be present in Windows 8. You can take a look at Microsoft's KB about it here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2729094, or get it through Windows Update assuming you're on a supported version of Windows. 161.254.5.251 (talk) 15:23, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Installing the optional update KB2729094 (through Windows Update) was exactly what was needed! Since Windows 7 + 8 users is a significant chunk of the audience, let me add a short note to this effect to the table. CapnZapp (talk) 08:24, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I already have that font installed and can't see the tables. I tried to re install it from the website but it is still not showing the symbols. I'm running Chrome 25 on Windows 7, I don't know if that update is sufficient. Kevin Morse (talk) 09:24, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Working in Firefox so it must be a Chrome problem. Kevin Morse (talk) 09:25, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

I use Firefox 26.0 (latest), and UTF-8 encoding (higher UTFs not available) on XP Home SP3, and few pictograms are shown. However, there is also a link to a PDF file that shows all the pictograms (it may have an embedded font). I guess there are no Unicode experts here to explain further. I looked inside the PDF file and see a font called "Uni1F300Miscpictographics" (along with several others), but I don't know how to extract fonts from PDF files. David Spector (talk) 23:54, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The embedded fonts are those provided by script researchers for the publishing of the Unicode and ISO 10646 standards. That one almost certainly was created by User:Evertype who works as a publisher, font designer, and standards representative for the government of Ireland. They are still the intellectual property of the people who made those fonts (full disclosure: I have provided a code chart font to be used as of the next version of Unicode), so I would ask that you not try to extract the fonts imbedded in Unicode code chart PDFs. VanIsaacWS Vexcontribs 11:32, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Van is right. Uni1F300Miscpictographics is not a free font and it is not permitted to copy its glyphs into other fonts or for other purposes. -- Evertype·✆ 11:29, 20 January 2014 (UTC)


 * For the users of Windows XP --- you must install the fonts Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol, and Symbola. The Presto-based versions of Opera do not support most of the Emoji characters, you must use Firefox or Seamonkey instead. 177.140.174.50 (talk) 16:48, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Without going in the details what could be wrong or can go wrong, isn't it a good idea to put up a sort of warning right on top of the table that depending on your operating system, recent upgrades and browser you're using some or most of the icons in the table can be invisible? I think it could help less technical people who are confused by this. Is there a special banner for this occasion? I would go for something like: "Warning: depending on your operating system, recent upgrades and browser version it is possible that some of the following content is not visible to you." Flekkie (talk) 15:13, 4 March 2015 (UTC)