gtk2/gtk/emoji/README.md
Matthias Clasen 452c909b64 Redo the handling of Emoji data
Use the data files from https://github.com/milesj/emojibase.git
as source for our Emoji data. Slightly change our data format by
adding a group to each item, in both the Emoji data and in the
setting for recent-emoji.

Install translated versions of the data as separate resource
bundles in $prefix/gtk-4.0/emoji, and load them when appropriate.

Currently, we have data for de, en, es, fr, zh, with data taken
from Unicode 13 and CLDR 13.

Fixes: #950 #1511
2020-10-04 01:14:42 -04:00

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Emoji data
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We use Emoji data from Unicode and the CLDR, stored in a GVariant.
The immediate source for our data is the json files from
https://github.com/milesj/emojibase.git
To convert the data from that repository to a GVariant that GTK
can use, the convert-emoji tool can be used:
convert-emoji $emojibase/packages/data/de/data.raw.json de.data
for example (for German).
To make these usable by GTK, we wrap them in a resource bundle
that has the GVariant as
/org/gtk/libgtk/emoji/de.data
and install the resulting resource bundle at this location:
/usr/share/gtk-4.0/emoji/de.gresource