convert utf8 or ascii emojis to iconify

[roeycohen]

hi!

is there any method to replace signs as :-) or :-o or UTF-8 characters such 🐣 😎 to iconify?

something similar to this:
https://demos.joypixels.com/latest/jstoimage.html

10x!

[cyberalien]

Not by default, but it probably can be done.

Icons are stored by keywords, so this would require mapping characters to keywords. List used by parser is available here: https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/13.1/emoji-test.txt

Then icons with matching names can be retrieved from API and rendered.

But that's just basic implementation. In reality things are more difficult because some emojis are combinations of other emojis. So script would also need to know all available emojis, split character that represents combination of emojis into multiple emojis if combined emoji is not available. That means in addition to characters map script need to retrieve full list of available icons.

It would be very inefficient and pointless to do in browser, but could be useful when parsing page on server, similar to MarkDown or BBCode parsers.

[roeycohen]

10q @cyberalien,

In our use case, we just want to convert people's comments such in my first comment to nicer icons, so it's best for us to be in the client side.

I'll take on this link and see how can i work with :)