such system already exists since long in various forums and chats, you already write a word between colons, you get the emoji without having to select it in a list or remember their code point and use complex input, but there's a way to reverse this conversion if needed. The conversion of ":colon-bracketed-words:" to emojis has frequent false positives, notably with punctuation: I've seen regularly false conversions of "-)" or similar into undesired emojis.
There's no evident and universal way to convert emojis to natural language, you'll collide sometimes as well with non-Emoji meanings I've seen some forums substituting programming code (properly tagged as such using surrounding markup such as <code>...</code> or <pre>...</pre> or <kbd>...</kbd>) and replacing it with non-sense emojis. The same could happen in the reverse direction (even if you surround the ":word:" with additional spaces. Even if you choose some keywords or markup such as "<emoji>smiley</emoji>" instead of " :-) " or " :smiley: ", you may break tabular data (using ":" as column separators). 2016-11-18 4:55 GMT+01:00 James Kass <[email protected]>: > Doug Ewell responded to Peter Constable, > > >> then an automated system could translate one user’s message to > >> display an emoji to a second user that more closely reflects > >> the emotion intended by the first user. > > > > Or, people could just say what they mean, using language. > > How about some kind of automated system for translating icons into words? > > >> E.g., how does U+1F624 “😤” compare with U+1F62C “😬”? > > They display identically in Notepad using Lucida Console, but I'm OK > with that. So if anyone seeks an easy method for translating emoji > characters into meaningless little rectangles, there you go! > > Best regards, > > James Kass > >
