Emoji entered with Windows Emoji Selector shown as "Unknown Glyph"

[esarver]

Describe the bug
When entering an emoji using the Windows symbol selection popup (accessed with META+.), the emoji is inserted but appears as the "unknown glyph" indicator (diamond shape with a ? inside). If an emoji already exists in a document, it is displayed as expected. If Vim mode is disabled, the emoji are correctly inserted.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
On Windows (not tested on other platforms):

1. Enable Vim mode
2. Enter insert mode
3. META+., select any emoji to insert.
4. Unicode was entered, but "unknown glyph" was shown.

Expected behavior
The emoji should be shown.

Screenshots

Environment (please complete the following information):

• Extension (VsCodeVim) version: 1.22.2
• VSCode version: 1.65.1
• OS: Windows 10 Enterprise 1909

[esarver]

Just tried copy and paste of an emoji and that seems to work correctly.

[marekjedrzejewski]

Same happens on Linux with Gnome - ctrl + . shrug space enter and instead of 🤷️, which is visible after clicking space I get the question marks and cursor between them.
Copy-pasting works. And if I disable vscodevim it also works.

[pieterdd]

@esarver I can confirm that copy/pasting works fine on my Windows machine. The problem seems to occur specifically with the OS' emoji keyboard.

[kartinul]

Same here...

[pohy]

I have the same issue on Windows 10 using the Windows Emoji keyboard.
But! The same emojis render correctly when inserted through the Emoji Snippets extension.

[pieterdd]

That's an interesting workaround.

Small caveat: this does not seem to work with the Plain Text file type. For those use cases, you may want to switch to the Markdown file type.

[MyriaCore]

bump! I've been annoyed by the lack of emojis for a while now, didn't think it was coming from this extension though given how popular it is

[pieterdd]

I noticed that this plugin has ~1300 open issues, so I think you're more likely to get the issue solved by contributing a patch than by poking the maintainers.

Alternatively - this is what I did - you can install Neovim and a VSCode plugin for Neovim. Neovim can be embedded into other applications, which is exactly what this VSCode plugin does. Thanks to this feature, Neovim cam provide a real Vim experience, where VSCodeVim is only an emulator. Neovim does not seem to have trouble with emojis.

There's a bit of configuration involved. Here's what to do:

• Uninstall VSCodeVim to prevent conflicts.
• Install Neovim and VSCode Neovim.
• Go to VSCode's settings and enter @ext:asvetliakov.vscode-neovim executable in the search bar.
• For the setting matching your operating system, enter the full path to the Neovim executable on your system. I had to enter C:\Program Files\Neovim\bin\nvim.exe under 'Neovim Executable Paths: Win32'.
• (Optional) You may want to configure VSCode Neovim to use different a settings file than your regular Neovim. If so, 'Neovim Init Vim Paths' is the setting you're looking for. Again, check that you have the right setting for your OS.
• Restart VSCode.

So far this seems to be working smoothly for me. Since it is native (but embedded) Vim, I also expect that will fix an occasional bug with the undo function that I experienced.

[Ya2gLu]

The author said you don’t free-rider, contribute to the code🤣

[J-Fields]

Duplicate of #6046; should be fixed by #7977