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How to render unicode characters in LINQPad using emoji style (colorful)?

How to render unicode characters in LINQPad using emoji style (color) instead of character style (monochromatic)?

I tried the following code (with VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to force emoji style):

Console.WriteLine("\u26D4\uFE0F \u2714\uFE0F");

Or:

Util.RawHtml(new XElement("span", "\u26D4\uFE0F \u2714\uFE0F")).Dump();

However, it renders the output in text style (monochromatic).

Solution

  • I tried these two emoji chars you stated myself in Linqpad 7.

    Console.WriteLine("\u26D4\uFE0F \u2714\uFE0F");

    Here is what I got in Results output :

    Linqpad 7

    So here I get two colored emojis with a 'no entrance' emoji and a 'check' emoji. It seems to work out of the box using Console.Writeline(..).

    This question is a bit old, but I see in the mentioned Linqpad forums that fixes were done in 2017 around more support for unicode and emoji support.

    So the answer is possibly that you need a newer version of Linqpad with fixes, although you didn't say which version of Linqpad you are running, you might try to update Linqpad within your major version.