BaseEmoji: Encode your text as emoji

What is it?

BaseEmoji is a way to encode your text into emoji. It's just like encoding into base64. You can encode foobar into 😾🚩🍧🏁🍁🏈🚥🍧🎅!

Additionally, BaseEmoji also contains utilities for encoding and decoding base64 (RFC), base32 (RFC, not Crockford), base36, (strings/integers) base58 (strings/integers, using the Flickr alphabet), and base16 (RFC).

Who might use it?

Anyone who has a use for any of the above mentioned encoding schemes.

Does it save space?

Just like base64 and base32, base_emoji's encoded strings are different and use a different amount of space compared to the original string:

"foobar".bytesize # => 6
encoded = BaseEmoji.encode_base_emoji("foobar") # => "😾🚩🍧🏁🍁🏈🚥🍧🎅"
encoded.bytesize # => 36

"Hello world".bytesize # => 11
encoded = BaseEmoji.encode_base_emoji("Hello world") # => "😻🔋🍆🐢👺💥🎷😻💯😤🍻😎💥👺🎅😾"
encoded.bytesize # => 64

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Praesent pulvinar.".bytesize # => 75
encoded = BaseEmoji.encode_base_emoji("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Praesent pulvinar.") # => "💥😋🔫😳⛔🍕🏈💨😈😘🍆🍳🍻💨🚴😻😾🌊🎴🚴🍕😈😤👺🙅👾🎴😃👺😀🙅😾😖😄💁🚩🍧💨🎭👾🎭🎃😘🚩🌊⭐👺😱💥😀🌊🍻💣🎷🐢💯😖🍕👺🏮😡🍰🚴💣🍻🙈💣🎷😋⭐🏈🍺🍕😱😈😾😉😤🍑😈🙈😉🚩😾🎷😍🐢💁🎅⭐😖😘😋😘😱🐢😤🎴😾😤💯🙅😍"
encoded.bytesize # => 408

As you can see, encoding in base emoji is on average 6x larger than the encoded string.

Testing

This library uses RSpec to run its tests. To run the test suite, run rspec --format doc

License

MIT

Copyright

2015 Joshua Smock