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FS#60163 - [chromium] Emoji support: All emoji are now monochrome

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Batou (Batou) - Saturday, 22 September 2018, 22:46 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Thursday, 27 September 2018, 04:22 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: All of the emojis displayed with new version of Chromium (69.0.3497.100-1) are monochrome.


Additional info:
* package version(s)

chromium 69.0.3497.100-1
ttf-emojione 4.0.1-1

* config and/or log files etc.
N/A

Steps to reproduce:
Go to any webpage that contains emojis: https://emojipedia.org/heavy-black-heart/
I'd embed an emoji in here but this bug tracker doesn't support it.
In all previous builds emoji support was working well and they were in color.
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Thursday, 27 September 2018, 04:22 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Font issue
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Sunday, 23 September 2018, 05:22 GMT
It depends on what fonts you have installed; if the font used to render the text on a webpage contains an emoji character then it will display it (usually in black). Related fontconfig report is: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/issues/111

If the offending emoji character comes from Dejavu, try installing ttf-bitstream-vera (and possibly also remove ttf-dejavu).
Comment by Batou (Batou) - Wednesday, 26 September 2018, 01:56 GMT
Evangelos, none of the fonts have changed in my install. The only thing that changed was the Chromium build and after the latest updated (69?), none of the emojis show up in color anymore. Removing ttf-dejavu and ttf-bitstream-vera would break up a bunch of packages. I'm not really sure whose bug this is... fontconfig might have changed but my best guess is that something in Chromium has changed. I don't think this is Arch specific at all.
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Wednesday, 26 September 2018, 03:59 GMT
I was able to get a black heart on the linked Emojipedia page after installing noto-fonts. The heart was rendered using the NotoSansSymbols2 font.

As a workaround, you can try removing noto-fonts and see if that helps. You can also check if Chrome behaves the same as Chromium and possibly file it as a bug upstream. I'm not really sure if fontconfig or Chromium is to blame here.

(In my case, most emojis were rendered in black due to the Dejavu font, until I installed ttf-bitstream-vera. The latter doesn't include any emoji characters so the color ones from noto-fonts-emoji get displayed instead.)

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