> According to `zypper --no-refresh se -s emoji` I have
> 'noto-coloremoji-fonts' version 20191119-1.9 from the main (openSUSE)
> repository; the font identifies itself as version 2.02 (from
> 2019-10-16).  Apparently, this package was retained while upgrading
> from openSUSE 15.2 to 15.4 since there is no official package for
> 15.4.

> Anyway, I've replaced the font with the current version available at

>   https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/blob/main/fonts/NotoColorEmoji.ttf

Thanks

> (font version 2.04 from 2022-09-20) and it works, too.  I'm quite
> convinced that the font version doesn't make a difference in solving
> your problem.

Right I just realized that 

 sudo fc-cache -vf 

Displayed 

usr/share/fonts/truetype/Emacs-noto: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs

That is definitely not good.


And in fact your font  does not help


I wounder how chrome and friends display all emojis.

>     Werner

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