SuitedUpDev

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@jarno Yep.... 👀

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@dogfox HE HAS BEEN CONVICTED!!

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@dwarf That sounds like something an ice creamer hater would say 👀

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@dwarf Plot twist, you moved to Moscow.

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@dwarf I'm sorry da...

Welcome to Russian Federation. Here your free bottle of vodka, ushanka and copy of The State and Revolution by Lenin.

Dobro pozhalovat tovarishch.

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

About 6 months ago, I got sucked into the rabbit hole that's called "Video Acceleration through GPUs" and now I am getting sucked into font and fonts rendering.

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@dwarf moist have information.

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@dwarf I wanna see if I can force my local wine installation to show emoji's instead of stupid squares.

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@chasalin Yes something like that, but unfortunately that application uses it's own emoji rendering engine. So it's not really useful for my usecase 😭

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

For the people that are wondering, what the hell I am up to. I use KakaoTalk Desktop and under #WINE it currently doesn't display emoji's, only stupid little squares. So I am trying to see if I can get WINE to display emoji's.

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@dwarf Yes, I already added the option to winetricks to install the noto-color-emoji fonts. But alas, that didn't do the trick 😭

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@hvangalen It happens with all emojis. So what I've already tried is installing the Noto Color Emoji font from Google and setup alias to Microsoft's own emoji font (Segoe UI / Segoe UI Emoji) and point those towarsd the Noto Color Emoji font.

I also tried to install microsoft's own Segoe font in Wine (by getting them from: https://github.com/Darthagnon/Segoemoji), but alas no bueno.

So I'm currently trying to validate my setup by using a simple emoji viewer....

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@hvangalen Yeah... Because I did find this little nugget of information, which makes me thing it should work under Wine.

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflinux/comments/wqbciq/how_to_install_emoji_fonts_inside_leagues/iox4w1t/

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@hvangalen Damn.... I did find a small application called "winMoji". Which is opensource, and hardcoded uses the Segoe UI font.

That apparently seems to work now 😱

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@hvangalen Yes exactly, the UTF information is at least being retained.

But it would be great, if I could get it to run as expected.

I just tried it in notepad and setting the font to Segoe UI. It doesn't render emoji's or number unfortunately. But it does render latin characters.

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@hvangalen Yes I did press the OK button... but I just tried it again and now it works ?! 🤔

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@hvangalen That might explain why it didn't work when I aliased Segoe UI to Noto Color Emoji....

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@hvangalen It's weird that it only does that with Noto Color Emoji. I wonder if that's an issue with Noto or WINE.

Tonight I might try to alias it to the Twitter Color Emoji font. See how Kakao Talk will react to that.

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@hvangalen The plot thickens... Apparently Windows handles (and most likely WINE as well) emoji font's differently.

Source: https://superuser.com/a/1062437

So there is a "Windows Compatible" version of the Noto Color Emoji font: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/tree/main/fonts

SuitedUpDev, 13 days ago

@hvangalen A little bit of an investigation reveals that pre-standardization,
Microsoft did a proposal for supporting Emoji's in fonts. Their standard only works for Windows 7, 8 and 10 (pre-2016 anniversary update).

After the 2016 anniversary update, they started to supported the OpenType-SVG font files.

Fun fact, there is a MR available for WINE, related to NotoColorEmoji.ttf font 😂

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/411