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Emoji results in question mark π π ? #7762
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'?' just means the character is not present in the font used by OpenTTD. So it works as intended. |
You might want to configure OpenTTD to use a font of your choice which supports emojis as "characters". See https://wiki.openttd.org/FAQ_troubleshooting#My_User_Interface_is_too_small_to_read_.2F_My_font_is_unreadable_or_faulty |
For in-game chat, configuring the user's own font won't help much, because the recipient will still see such characters as "?". Does OTTD really need emojis? |
It's the defacto standard nowadays to communicate emotion. Needing is maybe overstated. But if you make a chatbox, why allow a big chunk of the communication to be broken? |
The main problem is to find a reliable way to select fonts, that works across all OSes. But in the end, you can never know if that worked for the other player, or they even had any emoji fonts installed at all, so there's always a chance that the other person only sees garbage. |
Known, ultimately there's nothing we can do about it Lines 249 to 269 in ac21118
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Version of OpenTTD
1.9.3
Expected result
emoji in chatbox
Actual result
question mark in chatbox
Steps to reproduce
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