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On my Lubuntu 16.04 installation, I cannot see some Unicode characters, for example the Rocket character U+1F680 in Firefox.

Are there any extra packages, I have to install to be able to see those chars? What are the family of those charaters?

I also installed ttf-mscorefonts-installer but still those characters are missing:

🎩, 🚀

while others work fine like:

☆

This problem only exists on my Lubuntu installation, which I started with Lubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, and upgraded to 16.04 yesterday. On Ubuntu 16.04 all characters work fine in Firefox 48

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  • FWIW, I can see it on my Firefox 48 on Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity.
    – edwinksl
    Aug 7, 2016 at 21:18

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As noted in the site that you have linked to:

You need a font that supports this character to even have a hope of seeing it correctly in the browser.

You'll need to ensure that the fonts-symbola package is installed to be able to see such glyphs.

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    great! this worked: sudo apt-get install fonts-symbola and then restart firefox ;)
    – rubo77
    Aug 7, 2016 at 22:19
  • @rubo77 Interesting, I am guessing fonts-symbola are not installed by default on Xubuntu? Good to know.
    – edwinksl
    Aug 7, 2016 at 23:38
  • I checked again: it is Lubuntu with xfce4 and not Xubuntu, I started this installation a year ago with Lubuntu 15.04
    – rubo77
    Aug 8, 2016 at 11:05

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