[sylpheed:36325] R: FYI: emojis ☺ 👩‍ 🌱

[marcobresciani_1974 at libero.it]

For emojis and all other special characters you can use UniFont (from 
UniFoundry.com) that contains all Unicode characters.


Marco

>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: shiems146 at kpnplanet.nl
>Data: 11/08/2015 0.18
>A: <sylpheed at sraoss.jp>
>Ogg: [sylpheed:36322]	FYI: emojis ☺ 👩‍ 🌱
>
>You have probably heard of emojis lately, a sort of picture characters.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
>
>You can especially get them from Mac and iOS users.
>
>Unicode fonts are rarely complete, so among the 60 emojis displayed
>here you will probably see missing characters, depending on the font.
>
>☺ ☹ ☺️ 😆 😦 👩‍ 👩‍ 👧‍ 👦 👨
>👋 👍 👎 ☝️ 👆 👦 👧 👨 👩 👮
>🌱 🌲 🌳 🌴 🌵 🐀 🐁 🐭 🐹 🐂
>⚡️ 🔥 🌙 ☀️ ⛅️ 🎀 🎁 🎂 🎃 🎄
>❤️ 💔 💌 💕 💞 🏃 🚶 💃 🚣 🏊
>🎹 🎸 🎻 🎷 🎺 ♠️ ♣️ ♥️ ♦️ ☑️
>
>Now what I've discovered is this: you can download the EmojiSymbols
>font from here: http://emojisymbols.com/ , use FontForge to convert
>the .woff font into a .ttf font and install it.
>(To install in Linux, just put the font into ~/.fonts or
>/usr/local/share/fonts.)
>
>... -OR- directly download the EmojiSymbols-Regular.ttf font I converted
>myself:  http://home.kpn.nl/shiems/stuff/EmojiSymbols-Regular.ttf
>and install it.
>
>Now you will see all emojis displayed here correctly!
>Although the message text and header text are set to a very different
>font, Sylpheed apparently finds the emojis in the EmojiSymbols font if
>they are missing in the regular font.
>In fact, in Sylpheed the EmojiSymbols font serves as an extension for
>the unicode font you use for the message & header texts.
>