Emoji

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One emoji: 😀, 👍🏽.

Use it for reactions and labels, when you want exactly one emoji. For text with emoji in it, use Text.

Shape

One value, held as text in one set form, with no parts: ❤️.

example

Emoji("😀")

Emoji(raw) checks the text, and text that isn't one breaks the format rule.

text.parse(raw, as: Emoji) reads one from text that comes from outside. Text that isn't one at all fails malformed, such as ❤, 🏽 or 😀😀.

It has to be in the full form Unicode lists. A red heart needs its variation selector (U+2764 U+FE0F), so the bare U+2764 is refused.
== tells you whether two are the same. < and list.sort_by don't take it.

A string, in a request, a response or json.write:

json

"😀""👍🏽""👨‍👩‍👧"

Text form, storage, how it is shown, and operations

Emoji is in the group Web and network, and has been in Jadpo since 0.1.0.

text.from writes one standard text form, the same form text.parse reads back: 😀, 👍🏽 and 👨‍👩‍👧.

It is stored in one column named for the field, of type text. 👨‍👩‍👧 is stored as '👨‍👩‍👧'.

text.format(value, locale:) shows it to people in their locale.

With locale: Locale.en_gb:

It also takes text.parse, text.from, text.format, json.read, json.write and ==. How every standard type behaves says how they work.

Markdown for agents: /docs/types/type-emoji.md.Built from Jadpo main at aee2e8f.