JSON fields

[Crissov]

"No": 1, 
"Emoji": "😀", 
"Category": "Smiley & Peoples", 
"SubCategpry": "face-positive", 
"Unicode": "U+1F600", 
"Name": "grinning face", 
"Tags": "face | grin | grinning face", 
"Shortcode": ":grinning:"

There is an obvious typo in SubCategory.

Some fields should be arrays, Tags, perhaps Categories, or name-value maps/objects, Shortcodes, Names (Unicode character vs. localized CLDR names). CLDR also offers localized keywords.

Unicode should be a number or array of numbers if you wanted to cover sequences. JSON unfortunately does not support hexadecimal notation.

Default presentation (text or emoji), existence of variation sequences (VS-15/16, U+FE0E/F), boolean status as skin tone modifier base and prefix or suffix in gender sequences could be useful; year or version of Unicode addition as well.

[Crissov]

Some sources for shortnames:

• Gemoji emoji.json

  {
  "emoji": "😀"
  , "description": "grinning face"
  , "category": "People"
  , "aliases": [
    "grinning"
  ]
  , "tags": [
    "smile"
  , "happy"
  ]
  , "unicode_version": "6.1"
  , "ios_version": "6.0"
  }

• Slack? emoji.json

  {
      "name": "GRINNING FACE",
      "unified": "1F600",
      "non_qualified": null,
      "docomo": null,
      "au": null,
      "softbank": null,
      "google": null,
      "image": "1f600.png",
      "sheet_x": 30,
      "sheet_y": 24,
      "short_name": "grinning",
      "short_names": [
          "grinning"
      ],
      "text": ":D",
      "texts": null,
      "category": "Smileys & People",
      "sort_order": 1,
      "added_in": "6.1",
      "has_img_apple": true,
      "has_img_google": true,
      "has_img_twitter": true,
      "has_img_emojione": true,
      "has_img_facebook": true,
      "has_img_messenger": true
  },

  or data_emoji_names.txt, data_emoji_names_more.txt, data_emoji_names_v4.txt and data_emoji_names_v5.txt

• Emojione emoji.json

  "1f600": {
  "name": "grinning face",
  "unicode_version": 6.1,
  "category": "people",
  "order": 1,
  "display": 1,
  "shortname": ":grinning:",
  "shortname_alternates": [],
  "ascii": [],
  "diversity": null,
  "diversities": [],
  "gender": null,
  "genders": [],
  "code_points": {
    "base": "1f600",
    "fully_qualified": "1f600",
    "non_fully_qualified":"1f600",
    "output": "1f600",
    "default_matches": ["1f600"],
    "greedy_matches": ["1f600"],
    "decimal": ""
  },
  "keywords":["face","grin"]
  },

  or rather eac.json

  "1f600": {
      "output": "1f600",
      "name": "grinning face",
      "alpha_code": ":grinning:",
      "aliases": ""
  },

• CLDR

[CodeFreezr]

Upsalat. What kind of subtypo 😎. fixed.

Subarrays for tags could be a nice Idea. Even I tend to keep things as simple as possible, but not simpler.

The trouble is the unicode guys doesn't support anykind of "shortname", "shortcode" or "alpha_code". So there is no "final" decision authority what to use. At the moment I have synced with the eac.json. But will do a look up with all the other sources. Do you have an idea what Facebook / Messenger / Apple use as shortcodes? At the first glance emojipedia follows mostlikely the eac.json shortcodes.

I8N Names & Tags from CLDR is allready on my todo-list top10. This will blow up the json a lot, so I think about two jsons. One minimal, one CLDR. Or perhaps one json per language? 🎲 Another challenge CLDR is a bit behind v5. Only a subset of emoji v5 codepoints are supported.

And yes, Unicode should become an additional representation.

I would stuff like "Default Presentation", "Variation Sequences", "Modifier", "Year", "Unicode-Version" etc. put into the backlog. Perhaps for a "verbose" one.

[Crissov]

Apple does not use fixed short codes. They have emojis in their auto correct/complete suggestions.

Facebook supports replacing some ASCII emoticons and a limited set of “emotes” that can be extracted from their JS files. I don’t think there is other official, complete, up to date documentation of them.

emote2emojis: { 
slightsmile: '1f642', 
smile: '1f60a', 
frown: '1f61e', 
winktongue: '1f61c', 
poop: '1f4a9', 
tongue: '1f61b', 
slightgrin: '1f600', 
grin: '1f603', 
gasp: '1f62e', 
wink: '1f609', 
glasses: '1f60e', 
grumpy: '1f620', 
unsure: '1f615', 
cry: '1f622', 
devil: '1f608', 
angel: '1f607', 
kiss: '1f617', 
winkkiss: '1f618', 
heart: '2764', 
kiki: '1f60a', 
expressionless: '1f611', 
squint: '1f610', 
upset: '1f620', 
persevere: '1f623', 
penguin: '1f427', 
flushface: '1f633', 
crying: '1f62d', 
flushkiss: '1f61a', 
sweating: '1f613', 
like: 'f0000', 
dislike: '1f44e' 
},