I'm really trying to avoid saying "Pull requests welcome" but it is darn tempting. Full disclosure: I'd consider "the maintainer" -- a gentleman named Steve --

I'm really trying to avoid saying "Pull requests welcome" but it is darn tempting. Full disclosure: I'd consider "the maintainer" -- a gentleman named Steve -- an Internet buddy of mine. He is a real person, just like you. When he's not doing excessive amounts of free work for for-profit corporations, he enjoys philosophy and Netrunner. (Edit: Steve has contributed code and a lot of non-code scutwork to dozens of projects in the Ruby/Rails ecosystem, including -- off the top of my head -- Rails, half of why's body of work, Shoes (a pedagogy project), and, oh yeah, the emoji gem.) You appear to have the notion that Steve owes you quite a bit of work regarding publishing knock-off versions of Japanese cell phone character sets. This is an interesting entitlement to have, not because it is unique -- no, the OSS community includes lots and lots of people with it -- but because you've chosen to throw down the gauntlet over approximately the most trivial problem space ever addressed by an OSS project and it is one you don't even use. And for the sin of not making it easy enough to consume the free solution to that problem space (which is -- for bonus irony points -- because Steve actually was a conscientious OSS developer and went the extra mile to avoid infringing on the copyright law that OSS is vitally dependent on), you're wishing ill on him. You can, should you choose, publish a competing emoji gem. It will be whole keystrokes away from Steve's. Should you achieve success with it, the Google gods will even look upon you with favor and put it one notch higher than the Internet. Instructions for building and publishing gems are available on your local Internet. Godspeed.