Cannot display emoji ✔️, 🙋‍♂️

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open a new file
2. Copy these two emoji ✔️❌ to it
3. See this result

Expected

on Windows 10

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2022.12: Edited to add a workaround:

Workaround. Append a color emoji font to the editor font family e.g.:

• Windows: Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace, 'Segoe UI Emoji'
• MacOS: Menlo, Monaco, 'Courier New', monospace, 'Apple Color Emoji'
• Linux: 'Droid Sans Mono', 'monospace', monospace, 'Droid Sans Fallback', 'Noto Color Emoji'

e.g. on macOS

• "editor.fontFamily": "Roboto Mono, 'Apple Color Emoji'",

or for a cross-platform solution:

• "editor.fontFamily": "Consolas, 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Noto Color Emoji'"

[rianadon]

Great to hear it works if you put the font at the end! I’ve never seen an emoji font handle stars and numbers specially before though.

Also, I’m probably going to submit a PR soon to change the default font-family to include emoji. For my later reference (and anyone looking to make emoji work on their system), these defaults would be:

• Windows: Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace, 'Segoe UI Emoji'
• MacOS: Menlo, Monaco, 'Courier New', monospace, 'Apple Color Emoji'
• Linux: 'Droid Sans Mono', 'monospace', monospace, 'Droid Sans Fallback', 'Noto Color Emoji'

[rianadon]

This may not be how it really works, but from my understanding this is how Windows displays emoji as a fallback when no specific “emoji font” is used.

This can be fixed by adding 'Segoe UI Emoji' to the end of the editor.fontFamily setting so emojis fall back to the correct, colored font. Or you could use 'Segoe UI Symbol' instead to get monochrome emoji.

Thus, building off the default setting, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace, 'Segoe UI Emoji' would give you colored emoji. This should really be the default. But for now you could change this yourself to make the emoji display correctly.