> On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:19 AM, Scott Ferguson > <scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 18/03/14 22:38, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: >> What Debian font packages provide emojis? > > "apt-file" search and "apt-cache search" > give nothing. > > Fortunately fontology is a hobby so I know it's part of Symbola. > >> At least, thats what i >> think they are. Ive seen messages with little rectangular boxes with >> "01f 44d" and "01f 1e7" in them, and some googling > suggests these are >> thumbs-up signs and things like that. How doe i get these to >> display? >> >> (Also how do i look these up? Literally. I google and get a bunch of >> random things, without very much work. If I know its some kind of >> font, what do i type? "01f 1e7 codepoint" or "01f 1e7 > unicode" don't >> work.) > > Type in what? A search engine to find it? > https://www.google.com/search?q=emojis+filetype%3Attf
That doesnt find anything. > Hint: https://www.google.com/search?q=Symbola+filetype%3Attf > :) That does, but requires me to know the answer already. I guess my question is, "if i have a Twitter message with a rectangular box with "01f 1ey" in it, how do i figure out what that is?" [snipped] > # mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Symbola > # cp Symbola.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Symbola > # mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Symbola > # mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Symbola > # ls /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Symbola > fonts.dir fonts.scale Symbola.ttf > > Rinse and repeat for SymbolaGoomoji.ttf > > I use and highly recommend fontmatrix - a font manager/viewer/wizard. Thanks for these instructions. Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built package for this in Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely used. Jen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1395147987.98804.yahoomail...@web124506.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
