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Easy to parse data and spritesheets for emoji
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Miscategorised emoji. #131

Closed neverthemachineforever closed 6 years ago

neverthemachineforever commented 6 years ago

It seems that some emoji may be miscategorised.

For example man-bouncing-ball is currently categorised as "Smileys & People", whereas it's probably belongs more in "Activities". Also green_heart is also in "Smilies & People" but probably should be in "Symbols".

Looking in categories.json there are a number of others which possibly shouldn't be in "Smileys & People".

neverthemachineforever commented 6 years ago

Hmm, so I looked at where that data was being generated from (emoji-test.txt), so had a look through http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/

Seemingly the groups and subgroups are more illustrative in that file and http://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-ordering.html states that "The categories are broad and not exclusive: and any character will match multiple categories."

So that pretty much clears up this issue.

I'd be interested to hear though how others are consuming and recategorising this data. I.E Twitter and Slack for example have the coloured hearts under "Symbols"?