Fix emojis in PDF output
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The encoding issue in the PDF output (see e.g. S4 emoji exercises), are also in the whole R6 chapter. E.g. the colors (heart, spade, etc.) for my_deck$draw(52) are not correctly rendered.
just found this commit hadley/adv-r@3915c3a, which seems to offer a solution for the emojis in s4.
I've just applied Hadley's "emoji embedding strategy" for the emojis in S4.
The strategy comes down to creating latex-code to include and inline image of the emoji (which is downloaded automatically), when the output-type is pdf. Because this code is generated by code, it only works as an inline command - otherwise the code will be evaluated.
Because of this is doesn't work for the the R6 emoji. Here, I've instead tried to use the https://github.com/mreq/xelatex-emoji latex-package, but couldn't get it to work (with the rmarkdown).
I've replaced the ♠ with SPADE for now etc.
Maybe @hadley has a good suggestion how to fix this. As we've seen in the print it's actually not solved in Advanced R yet also. 🤓