High Sierra cannot display Wordle graphic in my 2012 MBP

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LD150 Author

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High Sierra cannot display Wordle graphic in my 2012 MBP

This is a post of Wordle results and you should see grey, yellow or green squares.

Wordle 286 6/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨

🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

But if i look at it in High Sierra on my 2012 MBP I see this, in Safari, Notes, Word, every app.

It used to display correctly in Catalina on this same MacBook pro but having bought a replacement I cleaned this one out and re-installed High Sierra from scratch (to use Aperture again)

The fonts seem to be Apple Color Emoji and the Font book contains that font.

I have tried, Reset of all fonts in Font Book, NVRAM reset SMC reset, sign into guest account, Safe mode and now a complete re-install of HS from the internet even though this installation was only 2 days old already

The same graphic shows correctly on all my other Apple devices, iPhone, iPad and Monterey so it isn't my Apple account.

Any ideas please?

MacBook pro mid 2012 High Sierra.

Posted on Apr 1, 2022 8:03 AM

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Answer 1

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Owen_1001

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Apr 1, 2022 8:06 AM in response to LD150

It's most likely because High Sierra didn't contain the emoji icons that Wordle uses with the results. This is why it is working everywhere else and in Catalina. As you can see from the graphic, the only color that remains is gray, and green and yellow are not supported by macOS High Sierra. The boxes where those colors should be are there since the system doesn't know the green and yellow icons.

Hopefully this made sense.

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Answer 2

Owen_1001

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Apr 1, 2022 8:30 AM in response to LD150

No problem. Before getting a new Mac, I used High Sierra on an older machine and sometimes someone would send an iMessage with emojis that macOS 10.13 didn't know, so it had that similar box.

Glad I could help. Have a good one!

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