Relating to skin-tone variations of emoji characters.
Questions tagged [emoji-tones]
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Is it possible to add a custom emoji with different skin tone in Slack?
Let's say I have a custom GIF emoji :alert: with multiple colored versions.
Is it possible to assign those a different skin tone modifiers to avoid creating multiple emojis with different names, e.g. :alert::skin-tone-2: instead of :alert_blue:,…

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Tokenize Sentences or Tweets with Emoji Skin Tone Modifiers
I want to tokenize a tweet containing multiple emojis and they are not space-separated. I tried both NLTK TweetTokenizer and Spacy but they fail to tokenize Emoji Skin Tone Modifiers. This needs to be applied to a huge dataset so performance might…

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How to display multi character unicode emojis in Overleaf LaTex?
So apparently Overleaf now can render emojis using packages of Noto Color Emojis, where you can use {\NotoEmoji \symbol{"1F343} \symbol{"1F338} } to input an emoji with corresponding unicodes.
My question is how to input complex emojis that are…

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How to determine the display count of a Swift String?
I've reviewed questions such as Get the length of a String and Why are emoji characters like 👩👩👧👦 treated so strangely in Swift strings? but neither cover this specific question.
This all started when trying to apply skin tone modifiers to Emoji…

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Regex to find emoji names with colon and skintone
I'm using EmojiMart for my parser.
I've seen this related question but it seem to be different from mine.
So I need to return the emoji names or :code: for them to be able to decode it.
So example I have this…

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Stripping out Emoji Fitzpatrick (skin tone) characters in Android TextView
I am trying to display some text that can contain emojis that were created on an iOS version of the app. When we render these characters on Android I see [x] next to the emoji.
Is there a way to extend the Android TextView so that skin tone…

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Regular expression for capturing all skin-tone variations of an emoji
I'm trying to use a regex to capture tweets containing the substring at least twice, so I'm using an unsophisticated ^.+ .+ .+$. However this doesn't match strings which instead contain, for example, .
Is there a smart way I can capture an emoji…

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How to put skin-toned emojis (black thumbs up, white thumbs up) on images?
I want the output to be like this (found at GitHub):
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But currently I am this:
The skin tone of an emoji gets separated in my output. How do I fix this? Do I need other libraries?
The GitHub code:…
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string replace function not working for emoticon with skin tone
I have string with emoticons like str = .
I have applied below string replacement function on above string
self.rx_unified = new RegExp('(' + a.join('|') + ')(\uD83C[\uDFFB-\uDFFF])?', "g");
return str.replace(self.rx_unified, function(m, p1, p2)…

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Applying skin tones to emojis (web)
I'm trying to use the emojione tones with unicode and when you use shortnames with _toneX in them, e.g., :haircut_tone4: two unicodes are rendered (see image). How to fix this?

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MySQL query to find emoji records with skin-tone variants
I am working on some SQL related to emojis, using data from the emojione release on github (https://github.com/emojione/emojione/releases/tag/4.0.0).
The emojis are given a unicode value - e.g. "castle" = 1f3f0.
Lots of emojis have skin tone…

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Combine HTML entity emojis with skin tone modifiers?
How do you combine emoji skin tone modifiers with smileys in normal HTML? I've tried the following in Firefox 52 ESR:
😏🏻
🏻😏
😏🏻
🏻😏
Which shows up as the…
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Use twemoji to parse "3 letter" emojis
I'm trying to use the twemoji.parse() function to render "3 letter" emojis, like "♀️" which would be a female detective with dark skin.
Here is what I tried:
Try one
twemoji.parse("♀")
Result:
Try two
twemoji.parse("♀")

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