Vscode: Pepper emoji 🌶 shows up in black and white

[coreh]

• VSCode Version: 1.12.2
• OS Version: Windows 10 1703

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Type or paste emoji characters: 🍠🍛🍘🥘🌮🌯🍲🍜🍙🍝🍚🍅🌽🍓🍑🍎🍐🌶
2. All of them show up in color, except for the pepper 🌶 emoji, which shows up in black and white. 😢

I suspect this could be an Electron/Chromium issue, since the pepper emoji is relatively new.

[jotatoledo]

This should be marked as critical 😭

[rebornix]

Each OS has its own Emoji set and the Pepper falls back to system one as Chromium56 doesn't have that. But if you look at emojis on macOS, you can notice they are different as well, and still colorful.

We should verify this issue in next Electron update.

[yfdyh000]

Like the https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/7334#issuecomment-250611191

[rebornix]

More details here, Pepper is introduced in Unicode v7 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Emoji) and Chromium is not always picking up the latest so in M56 Chromium doesn't think it's an Emoji, https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=617631&q=segoe%20ui%20emoji&colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Stars%20ReleaseBlock%20Component%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modified

To mitigate this issue, you may want to set your editor.fontFamily to use an emoji font.

[coreh]

Can confirm, adding "Segoe UI Emoji" to the end of my editor.fontFamily setting makes the pepper emoji 🌶 show up in full color 😄

{ 
    "editor.fontFamily": "Fira Code, Consolas, Segoe UI Emoji"
}

Can VSCode always append that font automatically (and the appropriate OS X and Linux fonts) to the setting behind the scenes as a fallback, when rendering the text editor? That way we don't depend on Chromium's emoji presentation defaults.

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