Ordering unicode emojis correctly?

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hi,

i’d like to sort emojis in default ‘unicode emoji’ pack as they should be, per the unicode’s emoji ordering chart.

they’re currently out-of-order completely, and it doesn’t look very pleasing.

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i investigated pleroma-fe/src/components/emoji_picker/emoji_picker.js but it seems not doing much by its own. (maybe it’s just me, now knowing vue, failing to figure it out.)

is there a way to sort the unicode emoji pack itself as i please?

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Any news on this? I built an alternative, ordered json based on the order on the unicode ordering chart you posted.

The result looks like this

screenshot of akkoma emoji selector starting with skin tones and following with emoji faces together
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You can download the json here and in the future, regenerate it with the official unicode description files.

It’s an opinionated adaptation:

  • Skin tone and gender variants are ignored
  • Skin tone modificators are added at the beginning

However:

  • the skin tone modifiers don’t work for me, adding them before or after a modifiable emoji.
  • I chose to leave only (pretended) gender-neutral variants, that represent (better) everybody.
  • Emoji font used by akkoma (or my browser/OS?) doesn’t support some emoji chars, like smiling_face or head_shaking_[horizontally|vertically]

Hope this helps somebody! Should I open a merge request with this, @FloatingGhost ?