Keywords

[groenroos]

Jump from 12.0.0 to 12.1.0 seems to have lost the keywords property in the JSON; is there a way to get that back, so that the emojis remain more searchable?

[amio]

Since 12.1.0, the json is generated from emoji-test.text, there's no keywords info in that source file now.

[groenroos]

I understand it's not available in the source file. However, the keywords are available in XML format in the CLDR repo. I think it could be worth it to look into incorporating this data into the generator script.

The keywords and emoji names are even available in multiple languages in that directory, so even #6 could potentially be addressed if this data source was matched and merged with the emoji-test.txt source.

[amio]

That's informative! thanks @groenroos 👍

[rainypixels]

@amio Any near-term plans to support a keyword merge with the CLDR xml as @groenroos recommended?

[amio]

@rainypixels Kinda busy recently, I might have time on this in a month. While PR is welcome also :D

[rainypixels]

@amio Thanks for the quick response. OK, I'll see if we can add it to our backlog before then to do a PR. 🤞

[angelofan]

I understand it's not available in the source file. However, the keywords are available in XML format in the CLDR repo. I think it could be worth it to look into incorporating this data into the generator script.

The keywords and emoji names are even available in multiple languages in that directory, so even #6 could potentially be addressed if this data source was matched and merged with the emoji-test.txt source.

I found the CLDR repository in json format.

I tried adding a part in the script that extracts localized data.

There are many emojis missing from CLDR, especially some skin tone variants. For example, there is no data for these expressions in en.json : 🤚🏻, 🤚🏼, 🤚🏽, 🤚🏾, 🤚🏿, etc.