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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
html
Domain
frontend, web-dev

Research direction

Start with emoji.html, especially the implementation linked at lines 27-51, and review the current emoji table and the referenced Unicode 13 emoji page. Define how filtering should use emoji names or other metadata, including whether an on-demand iframe is appropriate; done means users can filter emojis beyond codepoints.

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Description

Dear @xem,

today I browsed https://xem.github.io/unicode13/emoji.html and wished I could somehow filter the emojis.
Your current implementation only considers the codepoint:

https://github.com/xem/unicode13/blob/c963257e837c25ae6d829de8a8352b5c279d64a9/emoji.html#L27-L51

Thus, it might be helpful to allow some other service next to it (codepoint to name?).
I'm okay with loading it on-demand as an iFrame next to the table.

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