emoji provides standardized ways for translating unicode code points for Emoji to/from their emoji cheat sheet encoding, and is most useful when working with third-party APIs such as Slack, GitHub, etc.

emoji was written because other emoji packages for Go only provided cheat sheet names to unicode conversion and not the inverse. Additionally, there were no comprehensive emoticon packages available at the time.

Data for this package is generated from GitHub's gemoji project:

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/kenshaw/emoji
$ go generate

Install in the usual Go fashion:

$ go get -u github.com/kenshaw/emoji

emoji can be used similarly to the following:

// _example/example.go
package main

import (
	"log"

	"github.com/kenshaw/emoji"
)

func main() {
	a := emoji.FromEmoticon(":-)")
	log.Printf(":-) %+v", a)

	b := emoji.FromAlias("slightly_smiling_face")
	log.Printf(":-) %+v", b)

	s := emoji.ReplaceEmoticonsWithAliases(":-) :D >:(")
	log.Printf("s: %s", s)

	n := emoji.ReplaceEmoticonsWithCodes(":-) :D >:(")
	log.Printf("n: %s", n)
}

Please see the GoDoc listing for the complete API listing.

• Convert UnicodeVersion and IOSVersion fields of Emoji type to something more easily comparable (ie, int)