I'm trying desperately to display the colored emoji in VS Code but it's impossible. I am using Windows 7 and the emoji appear in black and white.
I tried the Emoji extension (support for Windows 7) but it's even worse because the emoji disappear.
Isn't there a simple solution to do this? Maybe there is a font problem but my emoji appear in color in Firefox.
Windows 7 does not have colour font support. That was added in Windows 8.1.
Note that Windows 7 is no longer supported by Microsoft, as of January 2020: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/windows-7-end-of-life-support-information
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VSCode is not rendering emojis properly, instead is just showing an empty space:
However, they are getting displayed properly on a page:
Any idea why this might be happening? OS: Windows 10
Fixed by uninstalling extension support Emoji for Windows 7
You could use this extension to Visual Studio Code:
https://github.com/Devzstudio/Vscode-Emoji-Snippets
I really liked the default look of the code font that was used in NetBeans 8. See screenshot below. To me it was really sharp and easy to read.
In NetBeans 11 though, the font is quite blurry, and it also looks bold even though the style is not set to bold.
Is it possible to configure NetBeans 11 in some way, so that it will use a sharp font, as in NetBeans 8?
If you zoom in, you can see that in both versions, the text is anti-aliased, so it should not have anything to with anti-aliasing settings.
I guess it may have to do with the JDK and environment used. I run Ubuntu 19.
Examples:
NetBeans 8:
NetBeans 11:
Apparently it was a bug in the JDK,
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8212071
which according to this page
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Font+Rendering+Issues
was fixed from JDK 11.0.6.
I tried updating to Oracle JDK 13.0.2 and now the font looks good again.
I offer a team calendar via Google Calendar to our sports club. It contain all match appointments for several teams and sports (like soccer, tennis, dart...).
I put Unicode icons at the beginning of the subject like a dartboard and a house for a dart match at our home location and a car for outside.
Like this: 🎯🏠 DC Flight Control - Team Dart Donkies
On Smartphones the icons appears as a colored image.
In browsers on a Win7 system as a solid black icon.
On my Win10 system also as colored image.
Same Google-Account, same view, same Google-Settings...
Is this a windows depending thing? Anybody can explain?
It's a font-depending thing
Windows 7 was so old and existed long before emojis came into existence and became common, therefore it doesn't have the appropriate font to display the colored emojis. And even if you install some newer fonts then it still can't render the colored characters because its font renderer doesn't support such a new feature. Initial support for color fonts was added since Windows 8.1, but only fonts with COLR/CPAL tables. Other colored font formats were later supported in Windows 10
An update for the Segoe UI Symbol font in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 brought a subset of the monochrome Unicode set to those operating systems. […] Windows 8 and higher supports the full Unicode emoji characters through Microsoft's Segoe UI family of fonts. […] As of Windows 8.1 Preview, Segoe UI Emoji font supplies full-color pictographs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#Microsoft_Windows
The same thing occurs on Linux where only a few modern distros have emoji support by default. Ubuntu has only included colored fonts since version 18.04, which means if you use the young 2-year-old Ubuntu 17.10 you'll see the black characters
Some applications like Firefox use their own font renderer and therefore can show colored emojis even on non-supported OSes. For example Firefox can display those characters on Windows 7 and Linux but Chrome and IE can't (not sure if Chrome was updated to support that or not):
Added a built-in Emoji set for operating systems without native Emoji fonts (Windows 8.0 and lower and Linux)
Firefox 50.0 release notes
It's also possible that someone hates colored characters and disable it completely
I am having some problems with Linux Mint 19.1 (cinnamon edition), which shows some texts in white on white backgrounds.
This issue happens for example in the logs of gnome-builder or in the selected items in gnome-boxes:
Using a dark theme (currently using 'Vivaldi') "fixes" the issue
Background:
I have a word processing app that utilizes a set of Custom fonts; there are four fonts in my set: Regular, Italic, Bold, & Bold Italic. They are True Type: Open Type formatted. This has been working great in the store for several months with iOS 5.0 & 5.1.
Note: I'm utilizing CoreText and doing all of my own text processing and rendering.
Issue:
After upgrading to iOS 6, I noticed that all Italic text is now Bold Italic, and any Bold Italic text is now "undefined" (for me that defaults to another font).
I had hoped that it was just an Xcode issue/change, but it's showing up on my shipped build as well.
What I've Tried:
I've double checked that all the parameters being passed into CTFontCreateWithFontDescriptor are the same between versions.
Looked through iOS 6.0 & Xcode 4.5 release notes & checked dev forums.
Removed and re-added Fonts to project
Any assistance or possible places to investigate would be greatly appreciated!