EZezequiel-garzon·Sep 18, 2024Recommendation phrase
Just in case, from the command line I recommend uni: https://github.com/arp242/uni
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Query the Unicode database from the commandline, with good support for emojis
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Query the Unicode database from the commandline, with good support for emojis
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Just in case, from the command line I recommend uni: https://github.com/arp242/uni
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Observed mentions: 2019-12-12 22:01:59 UTC to 2024-09-18 23:37:15 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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3 sourcesI really appreciate the section on alternatives¹, and I wish more people would add these to their projects. Not only does it show the author is aware of the current landscape, it may even help users to find tools that better fit their needs. Imagine a tip of my virtual hat, @Carpetsmoker!
From the README's notes on emoj "not a fan of npm (has 1862 dependencies)", I'm actually tempted to try that just to find out if it is true ;)
1. https://github.com/arp242/uni/blob/master/README.markdown#al...
In Uni: Query the Unicode database from the CLI, with good support for emojisUni: Query the Unicode database from the CLI, with good support for emojis
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