Wire-desktop: Doesn't render compound emoji correctly. Example: 🧘‍♂️

[dwt]

Wire version: Version 3.1.2822
Wire for web version: Wire für Web Version 2018.03.12.1141
Operating system: Darwin crest.fritz.box 17.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 17.4.0: Sun Dec 17 09:19:54 PST 2017; root:xnu-4570.41.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
Which antivirus software do you have installed: none

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Get a message with 🧘‍♂️
2. Look at it
3. Wonder about the strange rendering

What is the expected result?
🧘‍♂️

What is the actual result?
🧘‍♀️ ♂

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

[maximbaz]

It's a bug in Chromium (the engine behind Wire Desktop), or in fact a regression. I found this issue back in July, I confirmed that the issue was fixed in November, but now the issue is back again 😞

Emojis look fine in Firefox.

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In fact, this is how your bug report looks in Chromium as of today:

And this is how it looks in Firefox:

[gregor]

@maximbaz Please keep in mind that our desktop apps are based on electron. These do not include the latest Chromium version at this point in time.. You can always see those version numbers at https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/wiki/Builds

[gregor]

Hopefully we can soon ship desktop versions based on newer versions of electron. Our current internal builds are based on 1.8.7 as the 2.x branch still sees some compatibility issues. This will at least bring us Chrome 59.