12 Broken Emoji per set

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In the discussion “12 Broken Emoji per set,” Falco reported finding 12 broken emojis per set, likely due to the optimization process. Zogstrip offered to investigate and ensure the rake task checks for empty files.

Gehard suggested the broken emojis might have been removed during the last emoji update, as they are not available in all sets, including the Windows emoji set. He proposed using EmojiOne as a fallback, which could also allow for adding missing flags.

Zogstrip agreed with Gerhard’s assessment but questioned why EmojiOne should be used over Apple’s or Twitter’s emoji sets. Gerhard replied that EmojiOne is the current default emoji set and ideally wants to use the set with the most available emojis.

Codinghorror revealed that Windows intentionally does not include number or flag emojis, and he had manually created some for the Windows 10 emoji set. Zogstrip clarified that not all flags were lost, but the Emoji spec includes many. Codinghorror mentioned that @tgxworld might have fixed this issue previously.

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Looks like we have 12 broken emoji per set:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 falco falco     0 Set 26 15:42 eight.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 falco falco     0 Set 26 15:42 five.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 falco falco     0 Set 26 15:42 four.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 falco falco     0 Set 26 15:42 hash.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 falco falco     0 Set 26 15:42 keycap_star.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 falco falco     0 Set 26 15:42 nine.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 falco falco     0 Set 26 15:42 one.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 falco falco     0 Set 26 15:42 seven.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 falco falco     0 Set 26 15:42 six.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 falco falco     0 Set 26 15:42 three.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 falco falco     0 Set 26 15:42 two.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 falco falco     0 Set 26 15:42 zero.png

Probably related with the optimization process.

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I will have a look and also make sure we check for those empty files in the rake task.

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They probably got removed during the last emoji update since they are not available in all sets (looks like they are not included in the Windows emoji set).

It would be great if we could use EmojiOne as a fallback in such cases. For example, that would allow us to add all the flags that are currently missing just because they are not supported by the Windows font.

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That’s my guess too.

Yeah but why EmojiOne over Apple’s or Twitter’s?

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It’s the current default emoji set, isn’t it?
Ideally I’d choose the one with the most emojis available… Is it Apple’s set?

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I manually created numbers and flags for the Windows 10 emoji set, were those lost somehow?

It is true that by policy Windows does not include number or flag emoji. No idea why but I asked someone at MSFT and this is 100% intentional.

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We didn’t lose those 10 flags. But the Emoji spec has a lot of them.

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Pretty sure @tgxworld fixed this a while ago.

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Win10 keycap_star.png emoji still broken