Why doesn't Tweet unicode show in my browser?

[lrossouw (Louis Rossouw)]

This just popped into my feed in twitter (retweeded by codinghorror I believe). Not sure if it should be better displayed on discourse?

Kyle MacLachlan (Kyle_MacLachlan)

This is how it should look:

[lrossouw (Louis Rossouw)]

I’m using Chrome and this is what I see in case it’s just me.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

It’s just you. On Windows 10 (latest updates) and chrome latest, I see

[lrossouw (Louis Rossouw)]

Win 7 here on this machine probably explains it then. Thanks.

[elijah (Eli the Bearded)]

Installing the latest version of Symbola is all that is needed under Linux:

http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/

(Typically Linux fonts can be installed in a lot of locations, but ~/.fonts/ is easiest.)

Symbola is a ttf format font, and should work under Windows, too.

[lrossouw (Louis Rossouw)]

Checked in on my Ubuntu machine and works as is. Can be closed.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

We could pass the oneboxer html through the emoji remapper.