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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-85744

Emojis don't render as colour emojis, if the default font has black and white versions

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    • Resolution: Fixed
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    • 6.9.0 FF
    • 5.15.0
    • GUI: Text handling
    • None
    • Any Linux distro with Qt up to version 5.15
    • Linux/Wayland, Linux/X11

      When you have the following qml (also works with widgets, etc):

      import QtQuick 2.2

Text {
 width: 200
 wrapMode: Text.Wrap
 textFormat: Text.RichText
 text: "����"
}

      It will render all but the last emoji without colour and the last one with colour. Currently I have to surround all emojis with a font tag, that selects a colour emoji font, just so that I can have coloured emojis. I would appreciate it, if Qt would actually render these emojis as colour emojis, so that I don't need to use the RichText format. This probably happens because DejaVu Sans supports some of those emojis, but only in black and white.

      https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-71929 seems to have also described this issue, but it was closed as a duplicate of a Windows bug, that was fixed with a Windows specific patch in 5.15. Since I can still reproduce this on Linux, this seems to still be an issue.

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            esabraha Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt
            deepbluev7 Nicolas Werner
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