Add support for skin-toned emojis

grammyjs / emoji

Helpers for sending emojis.

https://grammy.dev/plugins/emoji

MIT License

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Add support for skin-toned emojis #4

Closed andrrms closed 2 years ago

andrrms commented 2 years ago

This plugin MUST support skin-toned emojis (👍👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿) since they're a fundamental part of Unicode emojis.

Quick thoughts:

Maybe it can use neutral-toned emojis (👍) + Unicode general skin tone codes (🏻🏼🏽🏾🏿) // Is this possible?

It can be accessed like this:

ctx.emoji`${"like:medium-dark"}` // 👍🏾
ctx.emoji`${"punch:light"}` // 👊🏻
ctx.emoji`${"raised_hands"}` // 🙌

andrrms commented 2 years ago

With further investigation, I discovered that it is possible to have emoji modifiers to change it's skin tones. Tone modifier goes from range U+1F3FB to U+1F3FF. The next step now is to split emojis list into two lists, emojis.json and skin-emojis.json. That way, it is possible to apply modifiers in a simple way.