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My 64-bit PC running Windows 7 Home Premium version has installed 3 major browsers, IE 11.0.9600.17914 (64-bit), Firefox (just updated to 43.0.3) and Chrome 47.0.2526.106 (64-bit). But all of them are incapable of showing some Unicode symbols, like this one . In Firefox, a rectangle containing the characters "01F" and "917" is shown instead, but in the other two browsers, only a rectangle will be displayed.

Even I go to this page http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%A4%97, the same result occurs.

I have read the other post My Windows 7 has suddenly stopped displaying Unicode symbols, but I think my situation is a bit different. Those characters have never been able to show up. And for more information, there are some observations:

(1) Some symbols for Facebook emoticons can be shown correctly, such as these heart symbols.

(2) I tried the solution suggested in https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=10202733484446539 (disabling hardware acceleration for Firefox), but it did not help.

(3) I tried the solution suggested in the accepted answer of My Windows 7 has suddenly stopped displaying Unicode symbols, but it did not work either.

(4) My Windows 7 is in Traditional Chinese, so perhaps the solutions in the US English version may or may not apply. But I'd still welcome and hope for suggestions in English Windows to see if they also apply to the Traditional Chinese version (and due to such hope, I did not specify the language in the question title).

Thank you in advance!

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GreenPenguin
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Despite having "Unicode" in the name, Arial Unicode MS does not cover all of Unicode. (I gather from the linked comments that no font can have a glyph for every Unicode character.)

It appears that Firefox, upon discovering a lack of glyph for a character, displays in its place the Unicode character number in hexadecimal. Other browsers just display a box. (U+1F917, as you showed, is called "hugging face.")

I've found that the Symbola font covers the majority of the "unusual" Unicode that I've seen. (The link is to a direct download from the Internet Archive.) There used to be a Chrome extension called Chromoji that had SVG versions of essentially every emoji, but it's been taken down from the Chrome store; hopefully it will come back eventually.

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You seem to be talking about Unicode emoji characters specifically. You can get the Emoji One character set in your browser using:

Emoji One and the font are updated frequently. (Note that the font is created by an independent developer.)

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