lua-emoji

Installation

If you're using LuaRocks, please:

luarocks install lua-emoji

Or you can manually copy src/lua-emoji into your project.

Usage

emoji to shortcode

local luaemoji = require 'lua-emoji'

local e = luaemoji:new()
local shortcode = e:emoji_to_shortcode('🥇')
print(shortcode)

shortcode to emoji

local luaemoji = require 'lua-emoji'

local e = luaemoji:new()

local shortcode = e:shortcode_to_emoji(':regional_indicator_symbol_letter_z:')
print(shortcode)