Can LiveCode render unicode emoji world flags?

[Monox18]

Hello all,

I'm recieving some JSON data from a webpage. It contains the Unicode for a flag as well as the .png image. I would like to know how to display the emoji unicode in a field (hopefully without the .png!)

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    "flag": "https://ipdata.co/flags/de.png"
    "emoji_flag": "\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea",
    "emoji_unicode": "U+1F1E9 U+1F1EA"

With https://r12a.github.io/app-conversion/ I found out the decimal integers of the unicode are 127465 127466. So I tried:

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put numtocodepoint(127465) & numtocodepoint(127466) into fld "Field"

But the field show the "DE" letters instead of the flag colors. Is there any way of properly rendering the flag?

[Klaus]

Hi Monox,

hm, just tried your script and got the german flag in the field!?

Bildschirmfoto 2021-11-04 um 19.01.12.jpg (12.24 KiB) Viewed 4779 times

Best

Klaus

[richmond62]

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which may show as the letters DE on some platforms

Which operating system are you using?
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On MacOS 12 it does what it is supposed to do.

[Klaus]

If you mean me: LC 9.6.4, macOS 10.14.6

[richmond62]

No: I was wondering about the OP.
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Oddly enough, LC 8.2.0 dp-2 serves up this:
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[Monox18]

Using Windows 10 Home LC 9.6.5 RC 1. Do you know which font should I use for the field? hopefully one of the default ones.

Also I just found out that I can install BabelStone Flags custom font from https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Flags.html and now it displays the flag.

[richmond62]

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I didn't choose any particular font at all.

[Monox18]

From your screenshots I guess the LC's Mac default font does support emoji flags whereas the LC's Window default font doesn't.

[richmond62]

Probably.

NOW, if you are proposing to export your stack with Emoji flags to run on other computers you had better
be careful to EMBED a font that displays emoji fonts.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/159 ... in-a-stack

[Monox18]

Will keep that in mind. Thx for the responses guys