Toolbar - Emoji Picker

[adrian-moisa]

Some authors might want to use emoji in their documents. It would be nice to provide a built in emoji picker. Not sure what is the best placement in the toolbar. I'm open to suggestions.

[VisakhRaman]

Would love this to be added.

[adrian-moisa]

Work on this feature will start soon. So far I've been busy with the highlights, markers, training other contributors. By now we are getting at the stage where we need emojis. I'd be happy to hear any recommendations on how to implement emojis. Any reference materials would be great.

I'm aware of:

• The emoji set provided by twitter
• The emoji Unicode UTF-16
• There are several emoji selector libs on pub dev (haven't check how they work)
• Ideally we should be able to replace the graphics with custom sets
• So far I think that emoji in the delta should be stored as UTF-16 chars and rendered as embeds using our own images. Correct me if I'm wrong. Not sure how other apps treat this. I've seen many times that depending on the input source discord some apps render different emojis.
• Would be super nice to have the same rendering on the web and mobile (all platforms)
• Web does not render the emoji selector. Mobile has an integrated emoji keyboard. Not sure if in all cases.
• Discord supports the :emoji: syntax. I guess for this to work we need to implement typing shortcuts (this is planned for slash commands, hashtags and mentions).
• If text is copy pasted the colon notation loses values, while the utf-16 text remains. Afaik these seem to be separate systems.
• Custom emojis could be defined.