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1y ago

Emoji support in dynamic text

The ability to update text runs at runtime is huge so thanks for landing that. However, emojis show up as placeholder characters (I've tried numerous fonts including Noto Emoji and I haven't found a way to display emojis). I'd like to request support for emojis in dynamic text. I think that's fairly critical for being able to faithfully display content coming from users since emoji use is so central to modern communication. For example in the video your team did on controlling text at runtime you had an example of a tweet that could take arbitrary text. But if you actually wanted to display tweets you'd be quite limited by the lack of emoji support.

The use case that I'm particularly interested in is for generating video overlays at runtime using audience text, think, embedding audience comments in video streams. Rive provides a very powerful editor for designing adaptive graphics that we can render to a canvas. Almost all the pieces are there. The only thing missing is that Rive won't render emojis at the moment.

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1y ago

I'm running into this too.

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4mo ago

We could animations using Emojis too. Emojis are very important