Encode emoji short names as unicode codepoints :smile: -> 😀

bower install -S encodeji

Encodeji is distributed as a requirejs module, in dist/ecodeji.js (compiled from source in lib/encodeji.js).

// require the module:
var Encodeji = require('encodeji');

// create a new instance, you could pass options here (see Advanced Use below)
var encodeji = new Encodeji();

Both string replacement and replacement of text in the DOM is supported:

// replace in a string:
var encoded = encodeji.replaceColons("my string with :smile: emoji :+1::skin-tone-3:");
console.log("encoded");

// replace in the whole document:
encodeji.replaceColons(document.body);

// or replace only in part of it:
encodeji.replaceColons(document.getElementById("someid"));

Unknown names will remain in the document, only primary names will be replaced.

When saving data with :emoji-names: it's a good idea to save only the primary name by which emoji are known, but you might want to allow people to input other names which are automatically converted to the primary name.

To get the primary name for an alternative name, use:

var primary_name = encodeji.primaryShortName("thumbsup");
console.log(primary_name); // +1

Get the emoji names which might match partial user input (useful for auto-completion):

var complations = encodeji.possibleShortNames("person");
console.log(completions);

It's possible to pass options to the constructor to extend the built-in data with your own data, to replace or add the name by which emoji are known. For example:

var encodeji = new Encodeji({
    extendData: [
       { name:"PILE OF POO", short_name:"poop" }
    ]
});

The data format used is:

[ {
    "name": "THUMBS UP SIGN",
    "unified": "1F44D",
    "short_name": "+1",
    "short_names": [
        "+1",
        "thumbsup"
    ]
}, ... ]

When specifying extendData either "name" (the official unicode name) or "unified" (the codepoint) must be supplied for each item, to match it against existing items.

• support for skin-tone-x modifiers on female/male modified emoji (Emoji 4.0)
• breaking removed toUCS2 from public API
• add warnDuplicates option instead of always logging errors on duplicate short names.