I've run into a problem drawing emoji that are under the 'Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs' unicode block.
Here is an example code:
<?php
header('Content-Type: image/png');
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(290, 60);
$grey = imagecolorallocate($im, 200, 200, 200);
$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 289, 59, $grey);
$font = 'seguisym.ttf';
$font = realpath($font);
//🌀 is the unicode html entity for a cyclone. It is under 'Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs'.
$text = "🌀 is a cyclone!";
imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 5, 22, $black, $font, $text);
//⛄ is the unicode html entity for a snowman. It is under 'Miscellaneous Symbols'.
$text = "⛄ is a snowman!";
imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 5, 52, $black, $font, $text);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>
Here is the output:
![The Cyclone and the Snowman](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DJaqS.png)
Here is what it should look like:
![The Cyclone and the Snowman Part II](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MUub3.png)
As you can see, these emoji are both under different Unicode blocks. The cyclone is under 'Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs' and the HTML entity is drawn instead of the actual character, but the snowman is under 'Miscellaneous Symbols' and is drawn correctly. I have double checked to make sure the font I am using contains both characters.
To be clear, I want the actual character to be drawn and not the HTML entity.
The same characters rendered as UTF8:
![The Cyclone and the Snowman, Part III](https://i.stack.imgur.com/B30r3.png)
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