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Apple Color Emojis

Posted: Fri May 01, 2020 5:30 am
by Shelly Harrison
Just a small thing, but…

Is there some trick to displaying Apple Color Emojis in a Mellel 4 document?

The emojis are there because when I export a Mellel file with emojis as rtf and open it in TextEdit or Nisus, I can see them. But not in the original Mellel file or in the rtf file opened in Mellel.

Re: Apple Color Emojis

Posted: Fri May 01, 2020 9:29 pm
by Icelander
Really interesting!

The colored flags are rendered with two letters, i.e. the US American flag is displayed as US, the English flag as GB, and so forth.
If I export the Mellel document as PDF, the flags are shown as two letters, and everything else is invisible.

Re: Apple Color Emojis

Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 1:25 am
by Shelly Harrison
Glad it's not just me.

Re: Apple Color Emojis

Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 6:39 am
by jannuss
Interesting
The Mellel guide discusses emojis stating that you can enter those with unicode numbers.
No mention is made on the lack of display.

I'm running version 4.2.9r1 with MACOS 10.15.4

Maybe it's a version/operating system issue

Janet

Re: Apple Color Emojis

Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 7:12 am
by macsailor
I did a test, inserted three different flags within a Mellel document. The flags didn't show up, only the letters. Then exported the file to an rtf file. Opened the file in Nisus Writer Pro and MS Word. In both applications the flags were visible. Opened up the rtf file in Melle, no flags visible.

MacBook Pro (late 2012), macOS 10.15.4 (Swedish version).

Tested with both with Melel 4.27 and 4.2.9.

Dit: Got the same bad result with the latest iPad version of Mellel. Only letters, no flags.