Ubuntu 22.04 not showing emojis / special characters
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Ubuntu 22.04 not showing emojis / special characters
Most emojis or special characters show as black-and-white "shadows" of what they should be, or empty black boxes. I have another laptop still running 20.04 which shows everything just fine. I think I notice this mostly or maybe always in browsers (LinkedIn and Google Docs are what I can think of right now).
Capability to display symbols is limited solely by the font you use. Change it to something supporting the whole enchilada - liberation, noto, etc.
So, it turns out I was using Ubuntu Mono. I changed to Liberation Mono, and I can see the difference in the terminal. However, Chrome didn't change. So I fiddled until I found font settings there and changed it to Liberation. I can see that text looks a little different, but still no emojis.
Sorry, but I know literally nothing about fonts and such. Talk to me like a five year old :-) I have no way of knowing what supports what "whole enchilada".
Sorry, can't help you - I don't use chrome, but assuming it's like in firefox you have to define quite a bunch of fonts for various styles and encodings, maybe you missed some, and to make things even more interesting web pages can specify their own fonts. Start by setting default system-wide fonts in system settings (exact location depends on your desktop environment), this may clear most of the issues.
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Ubuntu 22.04 not showing emojis / special characters
