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Fixing emoji support in the Linux terminal

Created by Thiago Guedes on 2025-11-16 23:38:42

Tags: #linux   #terminal  

Recently, tired of the huge accidental complexity of Gnome and KDE, I decided to switch back to Window Maker (again). Being a big terminal user, when I was setting up the terminal, I noticed that emojis were not being displayed correctly by Starship prompt.

First thing, I installed Nerd Fonts from their website nerdfonts.com. Guess what - no emojis.

Then, digging a bit more, I found that some emojis were being displayed properly, but curiously the ones being displayed by Starship prompt were all missing.

To my luck, there is a deb package that contains all the Emojis and can be used as a fallback for missing emojis:

sudo apt-get install fonts-noto-color-emoji

After installing it and restarting the terminal, I got all emojis being properly rendered.

Finally an easy one.

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