1# emojis 2 3[](https://github.com/jgm/emojis/actions) 5 6This package provides functions for looking up an emoji by its name 7(alias), and for returning the aliases of an emoji. 8 9A full list of (alias, emoji) pairs is also exported. 10 11Emoji data (`emoji.json`) is taken from the 12[`gemoji`](https://github.com/github/gemoji) gem, used by GitHub. To 13regenerate the `emoji.json` datafile from the latest gemoji source, do `make 14emoji.json`. If `emoji.json` has changed, do `make` to regenerate the 15`emojis.inc` file and rebuild the project. 16 17This package has the following advantages over the `emoji` package on Hackage: 18 19- It supports a fuller range of emojis, including all those supported by GitHub 20- It supports lookup of emoji aliases from emoji 21- It uses Text rather than String 22- It has a lighter dependency footprint: in particular, it does not require aeson 23- It does not require TemplateHaskell 24 25
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