Work backwards: \U0001f382 to 🎂

[controversial]

Is it possible for this library to work backwards? Example:

u"\U0001F382" would change to 🎂

[geowurster]

@The-Penultimate-Defenestrator Yep, it already does that:

>>> import emoji
>>> print(emoji.emojize(u"Happy \U0001F382"))
Happy 🎂

Is that not what you had in mind?

[controversial]

Yes, I wasn't aware it works both ways, and it wasn't in the README. Thanks.

[geowurster]

@The-Penultimate-Defenestrator Now that I look at this again, I led you somewhat astray. This works, but the emoji library isn't actually doing anything - your computer is rendering the unicode code as an emoji icon. All emoji.emojize() does is translate :emoji: strings to unicode codes, but in this case the string already contains a unicode code.

For instance:

print(u"\U0001F382")
🎂

$ echo "\U0001F382"
🎂

[controversial]

Right. I already have a Unicode string. I need to convert the Unicode string to the emoji code because I am using it with the Discord APi

[geowurster]

@The-Penultimate-Defenestrator Ah I get it - I was confused by the actual icon in the ticket header. If you wrap the text in backticks, like :birthday:, then GitHub won't render the string as an icon.

Yes, this is supported:

import emoji

print(emoji.demojize(u"Happy \U0001F382!"))
Happy :birthday_cake:!

One note is that the :birthday: emoji is actually an alias for :birthday_cake:. You can do emoji.emojize(":birthday_cake:") OR emoji.emojize(":birthday:", use_aliases=True), but emoji.demojize() does not use aliases. The reason is that there are multiple aliases mapped to the same unicode code, so its impossible to know which alias the user wants and returning the official string is more likely to work.

[controversial]

Thanks. Demojize is what I was looking for.