How to display emoji with next to normal text

noone

I want to display emojis with normal text which will be having its own separate font.

but if I set font to say 'source code pro' qt displays emoji's as squares and if I set the font to 'emoji', emoji's work but then my other text losses its font.

#include <QApplication>
#include <QLabel>
#include <QFont>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
  QApplication a(argc, argv);

  QFont f;
  f.setFamily("source code pro");

  QLabel l1;

  l1.setFont(f);

  l1.setText("thiss is gost 👻 haha");

  //workaround
//  l1.setText("thiss is gost <span style='font-family:emoji'>👻</span> haha");
//  l1.setTextFormat(Qt::TextFormat::RichText);

  l1.show();

  return a.exec();
}

is their any way to set fallback font as 'emoji' so qt will display emoji instead of squares ?

the workaround I found is to use richtext feature of qt. but i don't want to use it cause I'll be getting input from user

noone

My bad
I had set 077 umask (cause I'm paranoid) and had no read permission set on /etc/fonts/local.conf which had fallback configuration.
I gave read permission to all and reran fc-cache and now everything is working fine.

mrjj

@noone

Hi
Sadly plain text cannot contain multiple fonts
so without rich text is not possible.

Also, QLabel doesn't have any fallback font system.

Maybe you could use a TextEdit instead. It also uses rich text internally but is happy to accept formatted text.
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(just pasted from forum)

noone

My bad
I had set 077 umask (cause I'm paranoid) and had no read permission set on /etc/fonts/local.conf which had fallback configuration.
I gave read permission to all and reran fc-cache and now everything is working fine.