emoji not displaying properly on GitHub (Chrome)

[kmoe]

This is what the fizzbuzz example looks like when I view it on the latest stable Chrome on OSX:

Am I doing it wrong? Can you recommend a setup that'll allow me to view the code on GitHub properly?

[nv-vn]

Might be OS X, does it work in Firefox/Safari?

[nv-vn]

I looked into the issue a bit further and I don't know if this is still relevant, but could you try switching to the Canary channel of Chrome? That seemed to work in this blog post:
http://blog.getemoji.com/post/73341182572/its-2014-why-doesnt-chrome-support-emoji

[elbaulp]

In firefox 38 on Ubuntu 14.04 does not display either:

[freefri]

+1 same problem with Firefox 38 on Debian

[nv-vn]

@algui91 @freefri Can you guys try with a Nightly/Beta/Aurora build? It all seems to work for me in Firefox 40.0a2 (Developer Edition/Aurora Channel). Also, it could be a problem with your fonts, make sure you have Symbola installed.

[nv-vn]

@FourMan Can we try adding the Github emojis in a markdown file as a solution to this? i.e. 👍 (Actually, just renaming the files to .md makes Github render as its own Emojis instead of the Unicode chars)

[freefri]

Now testing in Firefox 35 - Debian, they where looking bad again, but I have installed Symbola from http://www.fonts2u.com/symbola.font and it looks like this now:

Not so pretty but (almost) "readable".
I belive the .md idea from @nv-vn is a good option.

[LandonPowell]

Chrome doesn't display emojis. You'll need to use firefox, or a chrome plugin to fix it.
I believe using one called 'chromoji' before I switched to FF DevEdition.

[kmoe]

@LandonPowell I tried Firefox Dev Edition - same problem.

[FourMan]

Markdown version did not work so well. Do we have any other ideas?

I like the idea of having two versions: .4c and .png.

Perhaps we can have a program that can read/write the images and change the images to .4c to compile actual images?

[LandonPowell]

I'm not entirely sure what your implication is, 4️⃣ 🚹 . Are you implying some time of OCR for emojis? That seems like a project on it's own. I'm not saying it wouldn't be fun though. 😃 👍