Unicode Emojis not supported

[hzulla]

Hi there,

my kids enjoy using Unicode emojis for the Sonos zoneplayers. Here's an example of "Bad" (German word for bathroom).

Screenshot of Sonos App (Android):

Screenshot of Noson:

Please add support for Unicode emojis.

Thank you so much!

[hzulla]

By the way, this is the emoji used in the screenshot:

https://emojipedia.org/person-taking-bath/

🛀

[janbar]

The culprit isn't Noson. I tested by creating a new Playlist with the name '😁'. It works as well on Android 10 (my personal phone).

Therefore it could be your OS that does not support a recent utf8 charmap including emojis. That is a recent inclusion so what is your OS/version ?

Your can test it, typing printf "\xF0\x9F\x98\x81" in terminal.

[hzulla]

I'm running Ubuntu 20.10 with your Noson PPA.

Your can test it, typing printf "\xF0\x9F\x98\x81" in terminal.

Here's a screenshot from my terminal.

I tested by creating a new Playlist with the name '😁'.

Then try creating a new playlist with the name '🛀'.

Here's what happens on my Android Sonos app.

And here's noson on Ubuntu 20.10.

[hzulla]

Okay, seems to be a bug in Qt's default font configuration. If you look for Qt and emoji bugs, there seem to be a lot of applications affected by this.

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-85744

[jon4hz]

I'm experiencing the same issue. Must this be fixed in the app or in some system settings? Sorry if this is a silly question, I'm very unfamiliar with Qt..

[janbar]

It must be fixed by Qt framework libs used by the app.

[jon4hz]

I see, thanks for the reply :+1:

[hzulla]

I have updated my Ubuntu installation and moved to mostly using flatpak apps. Wanted to come back to this issue and report that the Unicode now shows fine when using the flatpak version of Noson.

[hzulla]

(Please ignore the mention to bug 5075 of flatpak, that was a mistake.)

[hzulla]

Think this can be closed now. I'm seeing all the Unicode emojis my kids use for their players in Noson. Thanks for the application!