As can be seen in the attached screenshot, some 👩‍🦰 U+1F469 U+200D U+1F9B0 woman: red hair 🧑‍🦰 U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B0 person: red hair don’t render correctly in the screenshot, although they work using the same font (“Joypixels”, version 5.5) elsewhere, e.g. in gedit. Same result in Emacs when using "Noto Color Emoji", both emoji sequences are rendered as 2 characters each in Emacs (In gedit, “U+1F469 U+200D U+1F9B0 woman: red hair” works but “U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B0 person: red hair” does not, so this is likely because the “Noto Color Emoji” font does not yet support the latter sequence). When loading http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/12.0/emoji-zwj-sequences.txt into Emacs one can see that most sequences don’t render correctly (actually *all* sequences, as far as I can see). Also, when loading http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/12.0/emoji-sequences.txt into Emacs, one can see that the Flag sequences and skin colour sequences don’t render correctly either (not a font problem, both “Noto Color Emoji” and “Joypixels” support these): 1F1FF 1F1FC ; RGI_Emoji_Flag_Sequence ; flag: Zimbabwe # E2.0 [1] (🇿🇼) 1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0065 E006E E0067 E007F; RGI_Emoji_Tag_Sequence; flag: England # E5.0 [1] (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿) 261D 1F3FB ; RGI_Emoji_Modifier_Sequence ; index pointing up: light skin tone # E1.0 [1] (☝🏻) ------------ In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.13, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-02-26 built on taka.site Repository revision: 1dd44e633aed1ea10e9b611e844618814d6537aa Repository branch: emacs-master-mike Windowing system distributor 'Fedora Project', version 11.0.12006000 System Description: Fedora 31 (Workstation Edition) Recent messages: Wrote /home/mfabian/.newsrc.eld Saving /home/mfabian/.newsrc.eld...done No more unseen 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