is it a known problem that lynx doesn't display Emoji?
To reproduce, install some Emoji font:
$ sudo wget "https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/blob/master/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf?raw=true" -o /usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf
The following works as expected:
$ lynx -dump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji | grep 1F60x
U+1F60x 😀 😁 😂 😃 😄 😅 😆 😇 😈 😉 😊 😋 😌 😍 😎 😏
Here's a screenshot, just in case:
However, when I use lynx to open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji (without -dump), it looks very empty. Note that this is in the same terminal that had no problem rendering the Emoji in “lynx -dump | grep” just fine.
Just speculating, is this is really a lynx problem, or is perhaps ncurses broken for Unicode codepoints above U+0FFFF?
$ lynx --version
Lynx Version 2.8.9dev.1 (12 Mar 2014)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, GNUTLS 3.3.8, ncurses 5.9.20140913(wide)
Built on linux-gnu Nov 8 2014 17:56:17
$ uname -a
Linux debian 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1 (2015-05-24) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Best,
-- Sascha