Some emoji's render as unicode (I think)

[MattyJ]

Steps to reproduce

• Pull up the Emoji selector (ctrl + cmd + space)
• Select “Play” or “red heart” emojis, as examples

Expected result

• Emojis should render as seen in the selector

Actual result

Emoji’s render in black and white, sometimes purple (heart).

Environment

• Operating system: Mac OS

• Obsidian version: 0.12.4, with default Obsidian theme

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Additional information

[Moonbase59]

Different characters have different default variation selectors (“text” or “emoji”), and not all fonts have all variants. You could try to add an U+FE0F (emoji variation selector) to the character, without any whitespace in between.

I don’t know how to enter Unicode on a Mac, but on Linux it’s just Ctrl+Shift+U, then enter the hexadecimal Unicode value and press enter or blank.

Maybe this post can enlighten a little:

Font problem? Unicode "text-style" variant selectors don’t work most of the time

Things I have tried I really, really hate the flashy, colorized Unicode emojis. They may be nice for messenger apps and the like, but can’t easily be styled (with a font color, for instance), are almost unusable for professional tech documentation, and what’s worse, are often completely illegible with light backgrounds. Well, Unicode to the rescue! We do have variation selectors, one of which (U+FE0E) is for the text-style representation of emojis. Hooray! Only … it seems that not all browser …

[WhiteNoise]

Some Emojis are rendered in black and white (as Unicode)

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