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<p>The scenario: you are on Debian (or derivatives) and are using the
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Simple Terminal by the upstream suckless source or community repos such
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as my <a href="https://gitlab.com/protesilaos/st">soft fork of ST</a>.</p>
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<p>The problem: when ST tries to draw symbolic Unicode points—emoji—it
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throws an error and quits. This can happen quite often when using TUIs
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such as <code>neomutt</code> and <code>newsboat</code>: you might get updates that include
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such symbols in their title string. I have also seen Git repos where
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people use emoji in their commit messages…</p>
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<p>The solution:</p>
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<pre><code>sudo apt install fonts-symbola
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</code></pre>
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<p>Everything will then work as intended. Just confirmed as much on
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a machine running Debian Buster/Sid.</p>
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<h2>Not needed for graphical applications</h2>
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<p>To get emoji support on GUIs, I rely on another typeface altogether:</p>
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<pre><code>sudo apt install fonts-noto-color-emoji
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</code></pre>
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<p>Then I use the appropriate rules in my fontconfig. The following is
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just a sample <code>fonts.conf</code>. For the fully fledged implementation, refer
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to <a href="https://gitlab.com/protesilaos/dotfiles">my dotfiles</a>:</p>
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<pre><code><fontconfig>
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<!-- If the requested font is sans-serif -->
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<!-- Display sans-serif and then emoji fallbacks -->
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<match target="pattern">
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<test qual="any" name="family">
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<string>sans-serif</string>
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</test>
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<edit name="family" mode="prepend_first">
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<string>emoji</string>
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</edit>
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</match>
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<alias>
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<family>emoji</family>
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<default><family>Noto Color Emoji</family></default>
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</alias>
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</fontconfig>
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</code></pre>
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<p>All of the above granted, I wish I could do without emoji in my
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terminal…</p>
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