Description: My iOS keyboard has a dedicated key to show up the emoticon selector. Inserting an emoticon in the iOS app results in a "placeholder" character. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open/create a document in the iOS app 2. insert an emoticon through the iOS virtual "keyboard" Actual Results: A placeholder character is inserted/shown Expected Results: The emoticon should be shown Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Maybe we're missing a font which supports emoticons.
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You need to use a font that supports the characters in question. For instance Apple Color Emoji. (But yeah, it would be ideal if LibreOffice automatically would use that font for the emojis in question.)
Oops, I take that back. Sure, one needs to use a font with the emojis in question for text that includes them, but it also seems impossible enter emojis in the iOS app.
Should be fixed now in master and collabora-online-4+cp-6.0
Tor Lillqvist committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/online/+/df223f20fed9453e4736317ee7e7e68172f347c6%5E%21 tdf#124178: Handle non-BMP character input on mobile devices Message lost during the outage -> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-bugs/2019-March/176613.html
--- Comment #5 from Tor Lillqvist <tml at iki.fi> --- The above commit (well, the corresponding one in the branch from which the app is built) fixes the issue. (There is alos the Insert > Special Character... dialog where one can insert arbitrary characters including emojis, but that is horrible to use. Using the system built-in emoji "keyboard" is much easier.) Message lost during the outage -> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-bugs/2019-March/176615.html