Doesn't convert unicode emoji chars

[seahindeniz]

Hi

Does the library supports for converting Unicode emojis into custom emojis?

In here, we can see literal wink emoji has transformed but not the Unicode one. It would be very nice if both emojis would look like the same.

## 😉
## :wink:

[puzrin]

Could you add more details, what api do you expect?

[seahindeniz]

Sure @puzrin
Here, let's say we have this

import emojiToolkit from "emoji-toolkit";
import MarkdownIt from "markdown-it";
import MDEmoji from "markdown-it-emoji/light";

emojiToolkit.emojiSize = "64";

const md = new MarkdownIt({
  html: true,
  linkify: true,
  typographer: true,
});

md.use(MDEmoji);

md.renderer.rules.emoji = function (token, idx) {
  return emojiToolkit.toImage(token[idx].content);
};

const str = `## 😉
## :wink:`;

const result = md.render(str);

console.log(result);

Output will be:

<h2 id="%F0%9F%98%89">😉</h2>
<h2 id=""><img class="joypixels" alt="😉" title=":wink:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png"/></h2>

Expected output would be like:

<h2 id=""><img class="joypixels" alt="😉" title=":wink:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png"/></h2>
<h2 id="-1"><img class="joypixels" alt="😉" title=":wink:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png"/></h2>

In short term, md.renderer.rules.emoji should also get triggered when a non-literal(Unicode) emoji was placed in the input string

[puzrin]

First, you can also override .text rule and apply emojiToolkit.toImage() there, after escape.

Second, it's not clear, how do you plan to define list of suppored unicode chars. Because it may be more wide than :named:

I see some reasonable logic in your suggestion, but still not sure if it can have good solution after more deep investigation.

[necolas]

I was expecting the same thing and the twemoji package has a parser for this.

This fork introduced the functionality but wasn't published to npm https://github.com/makepanic/markdown-it-unicode-emoji

[carter-thaxton]

I ran into this same issue, and implemented a very straightforward way to get this behavior. Works great!
See my PR above.