Can someone please explain to me how Pale Moon is able to show me Unicode 9.0 emojis on websites and chromium browsers are not able to?
What is Pale Moon doing that is different from all the chromium browsers? Also, it seems to be the same case with Firefox.
Edit: I'm talking about Windows 7, in case if anyone would ask for more details.
Unicode 9.0 support on Windows 7
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vannilla
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Re: Unicode 9.0 support on Windows 7
UXP, the platform on which Pale Moon is built, has built-in support for Unicode so it does not have to ask the OS about it.
Chromium probably defers these details to Windows, instead.
Chromium probably defers these details to Windows, instead.
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RealityRipple
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Re: Unicode 9.0 support on Windows 7
Technically, I think the Unicode version is around 12 or 13, I'd have to look it up, but the Emoji version is a slightly-broken-for-certain-clusters-in-certain-circumstances 15.1. We use the post X-Twit Twemoji SVGs to build a font that supports 15.1 specifically for any UXP application.
Updating the Unicode version to match Emoji will... maybe eventually happen? It's the truly messy part. Updating Emoji will be easier, and I'll try to keep on the changes to Twemoji as much as I can. Additionally, you can roll your own font using any of the half-dozen or so public updated fonts that provide SVGs, though you may occasionally find files that don't work with the twemoji-colr build system. But if you do, make note of the tiny patches I had to make to grunt-webfonts and twemoji-colr to get numeric-keycap support to function.
Updating the Unicode version to match Emoji will... maybe eventually happen? It's the truly messy part. Updating Emoji will be easier, and I'll try to keep on the changes to Twemoji as much as I can. Additionally, you can roll your own font using any of the half-dozen or so public updated fonts that provide SVGs, though you may occasionally find files that don't work with the twemoji-colr build system. But if you do, make note of the tiny patches I had to make to grunt-webfonts and twemoji-colr to get numeric-keycap support to function.