How to get Emoji in your Ubuntu Terminal

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1. Download the Android Jelly Bean fonts and the Symbola font:
   https://www.dropbox.com/s/tvtzcnzkvbe0nrt/jelly-bean-fonts.zip
   http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Symbola707.zip

2. unzip the files and put AndroidEmoji.ttf and Symbola.ttf (and any of the other fonts that strike your fancy)
   in your ~/.fonts/ directory

3. run `fc-cache -f`.  You can check to make sure the new fonts 
   were installed with `fc-list`.  You'll probably want to grep the copious output for Symbola or Emoji

4. Put this file in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf (>=12.10) or ~/.fonts.conf (<=12.04)

5. Close all terminal windows, restart terminal

6. In your terminal Profile Preferences, set your font to 'Monospace'

If you're not using ubuntu's default terminal (gnome-terminal) then figure 
   out how to set your terminal font to 'monospace'
If you don't like the Ubuntu Mono font, change it to whatever you prefer,
   see comment in the file below
If you're going through various layers of ssh and tmux (don't use gnu screen) and such, 
   you'll need to make sure you've got your locale set up properly with an encoding of 
   UTF-8 at every link in the chain.
If you prefer Symbola to the Android Emoji glyphs, you can put that first in your config.
   Symbola is used here to fill in some glyphs missing from the Android Emoji.
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<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
  <!-- Font families -->
  <alias>
    <family>serif</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>DejaVu Serif</family>
      <family>Android Emoji</family>
      <family>Symbola</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
  <alias>
    <family>sans-serif</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>DejaVu Sans</family>
      <family>Android Emoji</family>
      <family>Symbola</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
  <alias>
    <family>monospace</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Ubuntu Mono</family> <!-- change this to your prefered monospace font if you like -->
      <family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
      <family>Android Emoji</family> <!-- put the Symbola line before this if you prefer Symbola to Android Emoji -->
      <family>Symbola</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
</fontconfig>