Unicode characters are not displayed

[memo-567]

Unfortunately, diaspora doesn't seem to be up-to-date here.

I'm aware that there's a chance some developers might not like emojis, but they're standard these days.

[Flaburgan]

Hello @memo-567 and thank you for taking the time to open an issue. Can you please tell us which pod you're running on? Thank you.

[memo-567]

I'm running the latest official Version 0.7.18.2

[memo-567]

btw:

I missed saying "not all unicode caharcters".

[denschub]

Are you on MySQL or Postgres? Did you ever migrate database engines?

[denschub]

Well, actually, no. It's not a setup issue. It's a client issue. Because even on the origin pod, emojis work fine:

It's possible that you have some weird browser addon that messes things up. Or maybe you're on Linux and don't have an Emoji font installed (and your browser isn't shipping one, or something). Either way, this is not diaspora*s issue - it's something on your end.

[memo-567]

Thank you for your prompt reply.

In the meantime, I have found the reason. It seems Windows doesn't support Unicode flags in general.

However, since other programs and Fediverse systems also, can display and do this, there seems to be a solution that their developers use.

It would certainly not only be of interest to me, but also to other Diaspora users if this were also integrated into the Diaspora code.

[denschub]

It seems Windows doesn't support Unicode flags in general.

Then use a browser that does work around that. Firefox, for example works around that:

On Windows platforms Firefox uses Twitter's Twemoji designs for flag emojis, which have never been supported by Microsoft's emoji set.