emoji_to_smiley/README.md

Tiny botched-together python script to replace (some) emoji with classic smileys. I have never written python before, so forgive any transgressions.

Takes text with unicode emojis on standard input, spits out emojis replaced by either classic smileys (:-)) or textual variants (:joy:) on standard output.

Needs

pip3.12 install emoji-data-python

or whatever your platform wants.

There are probably a million better ways to do this.

(I'll be using this, at some point, in front of my Pleroma-Gopher interface).