Which emoji version is supported?

[pejrich]

I'm using this JS lib to add an emoji picker. https://github.com/joeattardi/emoji-button

I want you use this Elixir lib to validate the emoji being send is an emoji, and only a single emoji before inserting it into the DB, but even when I bump the emoji version down to 1.0, I notice that scanning the string turns up an empty list, even for a lot of popular emojis, e.g. zipper-mouth face/🤐. Is there plans to support the full 1.0 (or ideally later) set of emojis? Alternatively, is there another way to verify that a string contains a single emoji?

[mroth]

This library is API compatible downstream of the Ruby version, which does not contain the most recent Emoji.

More recent versions are not trivial to support at the low level, a lot of complexity has been added (ZWJs, skin tone modifiers, etc), see for example: https://github.com/mroth/emoji_data.rb/pull/2

If someone wants to take on the work to figure out how to support all of those in a robust way in the upstream library, it should then be a possible task to downstream the changes to this library as well.