Emoji

OCaml library providing byte sequences of all the Unicode (v17.0) emoji characters and sequences

$ opam install emoji

You can see them by printing to the screen:

# Emoji.distorted_face;;
- : string = "🫪"
# Emoji.hairy_creature;;
- : string = "🫈"
# Emoji.orca;;
- : string = "🫍"

You can also get all emojis from the same category or subcategory:

# let best_animals = Emoji.sub_category_animal_reptile;;
val best_animals : string array =
  [|"🐊"; "🐉"; "🐲"; "🦎"; "🦕"; "🐍"; "🦖"; "🐢"|]

Using ocp-browser shows the emoji

Development

To generate emoji.ml, first update the source html files:

$ wget "https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html"
$ wget "https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-modifiers.html"

then run:

$ dune exec gencode/gencode.exe > src/emoji.ml

test with dune runtest, you can then dune promote to apply mdx changes to keep this file up to date.