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Show HN: Pet project update – translating emojis into URLs
- andreigaspar 7y agoLast week I had the idea of offering emoji support for URLs in a website. It was pretty well received - some people had suggestions for emojis, others requests for features like customization. Today I had a pretty interesting request of translating emojis from URLs into text, so I wrote a couple scripts, built a data set, and implemented a proof of concept for it. Examples: yoursite.com/<BAT_EMOJI><MAN_WALKING_EMOJI> translates to: yoursite.com/batman-walking yoursite.com/<FIRE_EMOJI>-in-the-️<HOLE_EMOJI> translates to: yoursite.com/fire-in-the-hole The feature is included in emoji-express 1.1.1
- julienreszka 7y agoTwitter fails to parse emojis when right after domain url in tweet. I ditched this because of that.
- andreigaspar 7y agoOh crap, it's true - although all other platforms do parse them right