Emojis not showing in kitty

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Hi,
When I use kitty, regardless of the fonts I’ve tried, I can’t see emojis in nvim, or the terminal generally. I see them with Alacritty, but it has its own font. I’ve tried half a dozen or so nerd fonts like, Fira, FiraCode, NotoSansM, Roboto, … The nifty Ctrl-Shft-U just shows blank space next to the codes. I’d appreciate any help, thanks.

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Those aren’t emoji fonts. You’d need to install something like noto-fonts-color-emoji or something else.

If you also need symbols, you need to install NerdFontsSymbolsOnly:

fonts.packages = with pkgs; [
  (nerdfonts.override { fonts = [ "NerdFontsSymbolsOnly" ]; })
];

See the docs for more info.

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Thanks for the reply. I already have the noto-fonts-color-emoji installed. Maybe I’m misunderstanding how to use it? Kitty seems to only allow one font in the configuration. I only have this in my configuration.

    kitty = {
      enable = true;
      font = {
                name = "NotoSansM Nerd Font Mono";
        size = 12;
      };
      theme = "Monokai Soda";
    };
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What’s the config for your fonts? Perhaps there is a conflict somewhere.

This might also be related to `google-fonts` breaks Noto Color Emoji in Kitty · Issue #327846 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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You’ll also want to use fc-list to get the font name, and then run fc-match "Font Matching String" to ensure that the string actually matches the font that you want it to

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Thanks. Removing google-fonts fixed it.

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I appreciate the reply. It seems google-fonts was causing conflict.