Emoji not displaying correctly

EDIT:

See comments for where this issue is still surfacing. It’s definitely not limited to just me.

Description

Emoji do not appear anymore at all, a blank rectangle is displayed instead.

Work-around

See https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/7397#issuecomment-572756439

Steps to Reproduce

Open any website with emoji such as Twitter. Emoji can also be copypasted from Emojipedia. I had one in a bookmark which is also not displaying correctly anymore.

Actual result:

Expected result:

orange heart emoji

Reproduces how often:

always

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	1.1.21 Chromium: 79.0.3945.79 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	29f75ce3f42b007bd80361b0dfcfee3a13ff90b8-refs/branch-heads/3945@{#916}
OS	Linux
JavaScript	V8 7.9.317.31
Flash	(Disabled)
User Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.79 Safari/537.36
Command Line	/opt/brave.com/brave/brave --enable-dom-distiller --disable-domain-reliability --no-pings --extension-content-verification=enforce_strict --extensions-install-verification=enforce --enable-oop-rasterization=Enabled --sync-url=https://no-thanks.invalid --enable-features=PasswordImport,WebUIDarkMode,SimplifyHttpsIndicator --disable-features=AutofillServerCommunication,NotificationTriggers,AudioServiceOutOfProcess,SmsReceiver,LookalikeUrlNavigationSuggestionsUI,WebXR,WebXrGamepadModule,UnifiedConsent,AllowPopupsDuringPageUnload,SyncUSSBookmarks --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --disable-webrtc-apm-in-audio-service
Executable Path	/opt/brave.com/brave/brave
Profile Path	/home/mitsunee/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? No
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? No
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? I do not have Chrome, the issue does not appear in Discord (Client) if that helps.

Miscellaneous Information:

I don’t know if graphics drivers are related to fonts in any way but I recently updated to nvidia driver 430, tho I have noticed a broken emoji in bookmarks about 2 brave updates prior.

[protortyp]

I had the same issue with the latest release (on Ubuntu 19.10) and fixed it by removing and reinstalling fonts-noto-color-emoji. Might help you people.

[Mitsunee]

for future reference, I upgraded to Kubuntu19.10:

Brave	1.1.22 Chromium: 79.0.3945.79 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	29f75ce3f42b007bd80361b0dfcfee3a13ff90b8-refs/branch-heads/3945@{#916}
OS	Linux
JavaScript	V8 7.9.317.31
Flash	(Disabled)
User Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.79 Safari/537.36
Command Line	/opt/brave.com/brave/brave --enable-dom-distiller --disable-domain-reliability --no-pings --extension-content-verification=enforce_strict --extensions-install-verification=enforce --enable-oop-rasterization=Enabled --sync-url=https://no-thanks.invalid --enable-features=PasswordImport,WebUIDarkMode,SimplifyHttpsIndicator --disable-features=AutofillServerCommunication,SyncUSSBookmarks,AllowPopupsDuringPageUnload,WebXR,AudioServiceOutOfProcess,SmsReceiver,LookalikeUrlNavigationSuggestionsUI,NotificationTriggers,WebXrGamepadModule,UnifiedConsent --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --disable-webrtc-apm-in-audio-service
Executable Path	/opt/brave.com/brave/brave
Profile Path	/home/mitsunee/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default

Issue still unchanged, no emoji display in any textboxes, bookmarks or anything while they do display in most other software (spotify doesn’t, but that’s the smallest issue that software has on linux…)