Public bug reported: Impact ------ Ubuntu has included Google's color emoji font by default for years. Annually, the Unicode Consortium releases a new Unicode standard with new emoji. Internet communication platforms quickly adopt the new emoji and it's important that those emoji also work on the latest Ubuntu release.
https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-16-0/ This is a follow up to LP: #2083629 which updated the color emoji font to support the new emoji. This updates the GTK3 emoji chooser that can be used in apps like gedit. Test Case --------- TODO What Could Go Wrong ------------------- This SRU is limited to updating the data used to generate the GTK3 emoji chooser. If the emoji chooser is broken, people can: 1. Use the GNOME Characters app (installed by default) to choose emoji instead and copy and paste them where needed. 2. Copy and paste emoji from the web, such as from https://emojipedia.org/ Many of the default apps like gnome-text-editor are GTK4 and are not affected by this SRU. Other Info ---------- We are also updating the gtk emoji chooser in LP: # This change could be backported to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS but the Ubuntu Desktop team has limited capacity so we are encouraging people who care about improvements like this to upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ** Affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) Importance: Low Status: Fix Committed ** Affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu Noble) Importance: Low Status: Incomplete ** Affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu Oracular) Importance: Low Status: Incomplete ** Tags: noble oracular ** Also affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu Noble) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu Oracular) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu Noble) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu Noble) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu Oracular) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu Oracular) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2096777 Title: Update gtk3 emoji chooser for Unicode 16 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/2096777/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
