Emoji 4.0/5.0 support?

[orsonteodoro]

I am using 2.3.0 and I cannot find any emojis in Emoji 4.0 (https://emojipedia.org/emoji-4.0/) and Emoji 5.0 (https://emojipedia.org/emoji-5.0/). I can find the technologist, the ufo, sauropod.

[OzymandiasTheGreat]

Emoji support is fully dependent on emoji support in the selected set and emoji.json database I take from emojitwo project. If there are no images for the emoji in the set there's nothing to display, so until the sets are updated to support latest emoji emoji-keyboard won't support them as well.

[ffxsam]

@OzymandiasTheGreat Why EmojiTwo instead of EmojiOne? I realize it's now a licensed product, but it should be free for your purposes: https://www.emojione.com/licenses

And it's kept up to date, unlike EmojiTwo.

[OzymandiasTheGreat]

I'm not touching anything that's not open source, that's why.

[ffxsam]

Actually, I just learned that Ubuntu 18.04 will have an updated, complete set of emoji built into the system. Will emoji-keyboard be able to tap into this?

[OzymandiasTheGreat]

That's the first time I'm hearing this. Tapping into that would be lovely and simple I hope.
Mind dropping a link so I could look into this further?

[ffxsam]

Yep, look at this gloriousness!

Info:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/08/color-emoji-support-coming-gnome-desktop
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/11/ubuntu-finally-long-last-time-support-color-emoji

[ffxsam]

So, technically you can use the Characters application to copy/paste emoji, but it's not nearly as elegant as emoji-keyboard.

[OzymandiasTheGreat]

Oh, I forgot about those articles. According to them, Ubuntu will use Noto emoji set. That's already an option with emoji keyboard.
Alas, not all emoji may be available for now, because the data file I use comes from emojitwo.
Only emojitwo provides a data (json) file with all required info, and compiling my own is more work than I'm willing to do.

[OzymandiasTheGreat]

I don't think ubuntu will have a repository of emoji data, just the font and latest gnome version that can actually display the font. So tapping into that is not an option.

[ffxsam]

Ahh, bummer. It was worth a shot!

[gadicc]

Does this help? emoji.json on npm.

MIT licensed, just converts all the data from the Unicode emoji list to JSON. Currently at Emoji 11.0 :D

var emoji = require('emoji.json')
console.log(emoji[2])
// {
//   no: 3,
//   codes: '1F602',
//   char: '😂',
//   name: 'face with tears of joy',
//   keywords: 'face | face with tears of joy | joy | laugh | tear'
// }

[gadicc]

Oh, it maybe doesn't have the short names you're looking for (e.g. :joy:). To compare:

In EmojiTwo:

{
	"code_points": {
		"base": "1f602",
		"non_fully_qualified": "1f602",
		"decimal": "😂"
	},
	"name": "face with tears of joy",
	"shortname": ":joy:",
	"category": "people",
	"emoji_order": "3",
	"shortname_alternates": [],
	"ascii": [":')", ":'-)"],
	"keywords": ["happy", "silly", "smiley", "cry", "laugh", "emotion", "sarcastic"]
}

I found another alternative though, emoji-data (also MIT licensed), which has an emoji.json (and emoji-pretty.json) with entries like this:

{
        "name": "FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY",
        "unified": "1F602",
        "non_qualified": null,
        "docomo": "E72A",
        "au": "EB64",
        "softbank": "E412",
        "google": "FE334",
        "image": "1f602.png",
        "sheet_x": 30,
        "sheet_y": 26,
        "short_name": "joy",
        "short_names": [
            "joy"
        ],
        "text": null,
        "texts": null,
        "category": "Smileys & People",
        "sort_order": 3,
        "added_in": "6.0",
        "has_img_apple": true,
        "has_img_google": true,
        "has_img_twitter": true,
        "has_img_facebook": true,
        "has_img_messenger": true
}

Unclear what Unicode Emoji version it's at, but definitely later than the current.

[OzymandiasTheGreat]

New version out, includes ALL the emoji! In case there's an image missing in your selected set, it will be displayed as black and white symbol from the system font.
I'm finally closing this.

[gadicc]

Ahhh amazing newsssss... thanks @OzymandiasTheGreat!! :D :D