[Feature] [API] expose emoji convertion

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#11032 added UTF-8 emoji support - add api to fully use this in clients

proposal: for miscellaneous

add POST /emoji/utf to convert an alias to utf
and POST /emoji/alias to get (first alias or alias list?)

idears and thoughts are welcome :)

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modules/emoji/emoji.go has:

gitea/modules/emoji/emoji.go

Lines 77 to 79 in b09ec50

	// FromCode retrieves the emoji data based on the provided unicode code (ie,
	// "\u2618" will return the Gemoji data for "shamrock").
	func FromCode(code string) *Emoji {

gitea/modules/emoji/emoji.go

Lines 89 to 92 in b09ec50

	// FromAlias retrieves the emoji data based on the provided alias in the form
	// "alias" or ":alias:" (ie, "shamrock" or ":shamrock:" will return the Gemoji
	// data for "shamrock").
	func FromAlias(alias string) *Emoji {

gitea/modules/emoji/emoji.go

Lines 106 to 109 in b09ec50

	// ReplaceCodes replaces all emoji codes with the first corresponding emoji
	// alias (in the form of ":alias:") (ie, "\u2618" will be converted to
	// ":shamrock:").
	func ReplaceCodes(s string) string {

gitea/modules/emoji/emoji.go

Lines 114 to 116 in b09ec50

	// ReplaceAliases replaces all aliases of the form ":alias:" with its
	// corresponding unicode value.
	func ReplaceAliases(s string) string {

[silverwind]

Can't clients just use a existing client-side library that does this conversation (which is mostly the same across libraries)?

[septatrix]

Can't clients just use a existing client-side library that does this conversation (which is mostly the same across libraries)?

Yes I agree, AFAIK we use the aliases from the github gemoji gem or more specifialy the aliases from the included json file https://github.com/github/gemoji/blob/master/db/emoji.json. Using the JSON file to get the corresponding data is easy in most languages and should not require an extra API endpoint.

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closed because clients can handle it itself ...