EMOJI in unicode font

[d4rkmen]

Is it possible to cook a font to display unicode emojies 😂❤️😎 in text, at-least with mono color glyphs?

[tobozo]

u8g2 unifont has some

Usage:

#include "u8g2_font_unifont_t_emoticons.c" // grabbed from u8g2 project

void loadEmojiFont()
{
    tft.setFont(&u8g2_font_unifont_t_emoticons)
}

[d4rkmen]

thanks, the idea is to display string of text with emoji chars inside, not only glyph, because we always can use pushImage instead of

[tobozo]

either way the emojis have to be rendered separately from the text

better use a monotype font if you use pushImage

[d4rkmen]

I got Apple Color Emoji font unpacked to PNG, made a script to append them with their codepoints to BDF font i need. This way I got b/w representation for all emoji. Converted BDF to U8G2
But, current version of library does not support 4 bytes UTF-8 decode, which used for emoji codepoints.
As far as I can see, there r only 2 bytes for codepoint in U8G2 font also. All against us.
First of all need to fix DecodeUTF8()

[d4rkmen]

The approach I see: to add setEmojiFont(), then change drawString() with pushing images for emoji codepoints