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iamcal / emoji-data

Easy to parse data and spritesheets for emoji
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Cite non-Unicode data sources #176

Closed jsejcksn closed 4 years ago

jsejcksn commented 4 years ago

Hi—thanks for maintaining this lib!

I know the canonical list of core data comes from Unicode, but there are components of this dataset which aren't available there—things like:

Will you provide documentation in the README for the how this data was / can be obtained?

iamcal commented 4 years ago

The data in question came from me, so this repo is the primary source.

jsejcksn commented 4 years ago

The data in question came from me

@iamcal Can you be a little more specific? Did you arbitrarily assign short names/keywords manually based on what came to mind as you went through the entire list? Did you use a systematic guide or other sources for inspiration? etc.

iamcal commented 4 years ago

Colon syntax: Invented by Campfire I think

Short names: They were the original set used by Slack in 2013, which was a mix of Unicode official names, campfire aliases, and things that scanned better (as decided by me).

ASCII text variants: Just written by me

jsejcksn commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the insight!