Emojis are not rendering

English characters render, but emojis don’t. I have loaded a font with emojis.

Issue details

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58635857/how-to-render-an-emoji-with-libgdx

Reproduction steps/code

FileHandle fontFile = Gdx.files.internal("path/to/file.ttf");
FreeTypeFontGenerator g = new FreeTypeFontGenerator(fontFile);
FreeTypeFontGenerator.FreeTypeFontParameter p = new FreeTypeFontGenerator.FreeTypeFontParameter();
// Some config here with p
BitmapFont emojiFont= g.generateFont(p);

public static void renderFont(SpriteBatch sb, BitmapFont font, String msg, float x, float y, Color c) {
  font.setColor(c);
  font.draw(sb, msg, x, y);
}

String str = "emoji ❤ \uD83D\uDC49 test \uD83D\uDC49 \uD83D\uDC4D test \uD83D\uDE03"
renderFont(sb, emojiFont, str, x, y, new Color(-597249));

Version of LibGDX and/or relevant dependencies

1.9.2

Please select the affected platforms

• [ x] Windows

[taluks]

would be nice add point code support for font and label. when i try add code point (int type) to font i get error BitmapFontData bitmapFontData = new BitmapFontData(); bitmapFontData.setGlyph(0x1F60B, new Glyph());

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 251 at com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.BitmapFont$BitmapFontData.setGlyph(BitmapFont.java:744)

and then we can easy to add custom emoji and stickers. for example https://github.com/taluks/libgdx-emodji

[DavidPDev]

I have been doing some “experiments” on how to add Emojis to libGDX texts (Labels, BitmapFonts, etc) and have created a EmojiSupport class without having to change any file in the gdx core. https://github.com/DavidPDev/gdx-EmojiSupport Currently supports adding emojis to any text with very low penalty. Please if you can check it, it’s not 100% perfect but may be the way to supporting emojis natively.