Missing emoji aliases
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I couldn't tell if this was related to #76, but it looks like common aliases might have been dropped in the last update.
An example is searching for coffee which brings up brown "brown heart" 🤎 and "coffin" ⚰️.
TIL that it's labeled as "hot beverage" which search can't quite narrow down with either "hot beverage" or "hotbeverage". I can eventually get there by searching for "beverage" finding it.
Anyways, not a huge deal, but passing it along just in case this wasn't intended.
Aliases are defined in https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html and imported here through https://github.com/muan/emojilib. As such, we do not maintain the list of aliases. We'd need upstream to fill in the gaps and release a new version.
I think emojilib maintains the aliases manually. I also think the maintainer is tired of maintaining the library (completely understandable). Before they released v3, I investigated parsing the atrocious Unicode data sets and building my own data to use in this application. I may need to revisit that.
Thanks for the quick reply and the reference. I think I might have found the 1 in a million where it was accidently moved to the 🤎 . muan/emojilib#199 It might be fixed in a future update from the looks of things.
@jsumners It definitely seems like something is off - you can see my example of "pray" to find U+1F64F - which used to work but can no longer be found.
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@berters please reread the thread.
My apologies, seems like it's down to emojlib then.
Some of these aliases are being fixed in emojilib as we speak:
https://github.com/muan/emojilib/commits/main/dist/emoji-en-US.json
First, thanks for this alfred workflow @jsumners . I love it.
Now, I get it the emojilib is the one keeping the keywords, but something changed lately and now results are way of. For example, I use the bee emoji a lot, I used to do emoji bee and it would be the first result in the list, now it's a cow.
Let's compare what emojilib has vs the results:
Now, let's be more exact. These are the emojis have the string in bee in emojilib. And this is the order or precedence I would expect them to have base on the position in the array:
As you can see, the string bee is in position 0 for the 🐝 emoji, vs in position 1 for 🐮 emoji. I would expect that the strings with higher position within the arrays would have more precedence. Just like, when I type :bee here in github, I get the bee First.
In conclusion, I would expect the following order based on emojilib:
Position 0 to 5 (in any order since they all share position 0?).
"🐝": [
"honeybee",
"animal",
"insect",
"nature",
"bug",
"spring",
"honey"
],
"🐞": [
"lady_beetle",
"animal",
"insect",
"nature",
"ladybug"
],
"🍺": [
"beer_mug",
"relax",
"beverage",
"drink",
"drunk",
"party",
"pub",
"summer",
"alcohol",
"booze"
],
"🍻": [
"clinking_beer_mugs",
"relax",
"beverage",
"drink",
"drunk",
"party",
"pub",
"summer",
"alcohol",
"booze"
],
"🍻": [
"clinking_beer_mugs",
"relax",
"beverage",
"drink",
"drunk",
"party",
"pub",
"summer",
"alcohol",
"booze"
],
"🪲": [
"beetle",
"insect"
],
Position 5 to 6 (in any order since they all share position 1).
"🐮": [
"cow_face",
"beef",
"ox",
"animal",
"nature",
"moo",
"milk"
],
"🐄": [
"cow",
"beef",
"ox",
"animal",
"nature",
"moo",
"milk"
],
Position 7 to 8 (in any order since they all share position 3).
"🐂": [
"ox",
"animal",
"cow",
"beef"
],
"🍔": [
"hamburger",
"meat",
"fast food",
"beef",
"cheeseburger",
"mcdonalds",
"burger king"
],
Thanks!
I'm going to go ahead and close my own issue. My main issue I was seeing was aliases not working that appear to be in emojilib (see https://github.com/muan/emojilib/blob/63532198d03123e5b75aa348bc00f6f36f18aac7/dist/emoji-en-US.json#L4804 for an example of my "emoji coffee" showing up blank example).
I think the scope of comments has drifted to search relevance more than aliases not showing up. Feel free to re-open if you want.