Feature request: Symbols font

[cajstan]

Would it be possible to include in the Linux Mint distributions something like the 'Symbola' UTF-8 font found on this site:
http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/?
It contains lots of symbols, glyphs and emoji that are currently going around in the smartphone and social networking world. People keep sending me e-mails and messages with characters like these:
http://apps.timwhitlock.info/emoji/tables/unicode,
which I can see on my phone but not on the desktop box. Providing a font like the Symbola mentioned above would help.

[Flemur]

like the 'Symbola' UTF-8 font found on this site:
http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/?

It's quite easy to install any ttf fonts you've downloaded.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts
Actually that makes it sound much more complicated than it is:

Put the font(s) in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/[optional-sub-dir]
then

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sudo fc-cache -f -v

Edit: Or
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/29
(except the ~/.fonts dir has been moved...)

[killer de bug]

(except the ~/.fonts dir has been moved...)

Interesting! On LMDE it is still there. Where is it now by default on the main edition?

[cajstan]

It's quite easy to install any ttf fonts you've downloaded.

Yes, I know. That's how I fond out about this font. Plus of course having to go spelunking the web to find it.
It should be in a nice and easy package. Plus, most desktop users take a dim view of spending time, having to type arcane terminal commands and jumping through all sorts of hoops to get something simple and essential (for them) as this.