Emoji

[o-t-w]

Description

Apologies for creating such a broad issue but there are a few separate issues with emoji:

• Reliably getting an emoji to render as an emoji rather than as a black icon (see this thread)
• Missing emoji on different operating systems/browsers, particularly flag emoji missing on Windows (see this article)

Rationale

This in-progress Chrome issue may improve emoji rendering as emoji rather than black symbols.

I haven’t been able to gauge developer sentiment, but I’ve written about this issue myself here.

Investigation Roadmap

No response

[yisibl]

Perhaps a separate font-variant-emoji property should be created?

[jgraham]

It's hard for me to understand in detail what this proposal is hoping to achieve. Are there web-platform-tests that cover the browser differences?

[o-t-w]

The outcome I would like to see:

• Either Windows OS starts to include flag emoji or browsers themselves start to incorporate an emoji font that includes all emoji.
• Chromium ensures that font-variant-emoji and variation selectors always lead to the correct outcome regardless of font stack.

[wpt-interop]

Thank you for proposing Emoji for inclusion in Interop 2025.

We wanted to let you know that this proposal was not selected to be part of Interop this year.

On behalf of the entire Interop team, thank you for submitting this proposal for consideration. We got many more proposals than we could include in this year's project, necessitating some difficult choices. Please note this should not be taken as a comment on the technology as a whole, or our willingness to consider it for Interop in the future. We appreciate the work you put into your proposal, and would welcome your participation in future rounds of Interop.

For an overview of our process, see proposal selection. Thank you again for contributing to Interop 2025.

Posted on behalf of the Interop team.