Render emojis as emoji characters

Fixes #465

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/generate_weemoji.py b/generate_weemoji.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..022cd4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/generate_weemoji.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import json
+import sys
+
+all_emojis = json.loads(sys.stdin.read())
+
+def convert_unicode_string(emoji_dict):
+    for k, v in emoji_dict.items():
+        if k == 'unicode':
+            emoji_dict[k] = ''.join([chr(int(x, 16)) for x in v.split('-')])
+        if type(v) == dict:
+            convert_unicode_string(v)
+
+convert_unicode_string(all_emojis)
+
+with open('weemoji.json', 'w') as weemoji:
+    json.dump(all_emojis, weemoji, indent=2, sort_keys=True)
+    weemoji.write('\n')