Emoji font

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Is there a way to implement emoji font (Unicode) as SpriteFont? When I try to implement NotoColorEmoji and add region for single emoji I got error during .spritefont compilation. I see on git that Mono parses it from UTF-32, so I tried using HEX or DEC codes for UTF-32, but it still failed :confused: Do I do something wrong or maybe Mono simple doesn’t support such big subsets as emoji? :thinking:

    <CharacterRegions>
      <CharacterRegion>
        <Start>&#32;</Start>
        <End>&#126;</End>
      </CharacterRegion>
      <CharacterRegion>
        <Start>&#x1f600;</Start>
        <End>&#x1f600;</End>
      </CharacterRegion>
    </CharacterRegions>

Importer ‘FontDescriptionImporter’ had unexpected failure!
System.FormatException: String must be exactly one character long.

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SpriteFont does not currently support emoji characters. There is an open issue in the GitHub repo for it and its part of the 3.9 release milestones.

Issue link: SpriteFont does not support emoji characters · Issue #4805 · MonoGame/MonoGame · GitHub

Milestones link: 3.9 Release Milestone · GitHub

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