Ewanophobia/lua-emoji

Convert text to emojis in Lua just as you would in a chat client such as Discord.

😄 lua-emoji 😄

local emoji = require(path.to.emoji)

print(emoji("emojis are :ok_hand:!"))

-- output: emojis are 👌!

lua-emoji supports skin tones!

emoji() takes an optional second argument for the skin tone. Available skin tones are

• emoji.Light
• emoji.Dark
• emoji.MediumLight
• emoji.MediumDark
• emoji.Medium

Aliases

Several aliases can be used for each emoji depending on your preferences:

print(emoji(":thumbs_up: = :thumbs-up: = :thumbsup:"))
-- output: 👍 = 👍 = 👍

lua-emoji also allows you to use ISO country codes from https://countrycode.org/ for flags.

Install

All the code is in one module, so you can install it by downloading the emoji.lua file from the GitHub repository and inserting it in your game.

Resources

• Emoji Cheatsheet
• Official Unicode List

The emoji list is generated from Taehoon Kim's emoji for Python.