Emojis are not removed

[WoaDmulL]

The new emojis like 🤗, 🥂, 🤔, 🤘fail to be removed.

Check this gist https://gist.github.com/octohedron/3823d081eb1b92abe93b570875ec77f4

[davidmogar]

Thank you for the report. I'll try to fix this as soon as possible.

[davidmogar]

I'm currently considering removing the current regex and use instead this library as it would allow to replace the emojis with text. That was the initial goal. What do you think?

[WoaDmulL]

I think it would be better to remove them by default; and replace them with some custom setting or optional argument passed to the function when needed. Or the opposite way.

[davidmogar]

Yeah, that is the current behavior. The problem with it is that you lose information in the process. Contemplate the next scenario:

• Today I'm 😄
• Today I'm 😢

In both cases, applying the current code you'd get Today I'm what removes completely the useful information.

Just something to think about...

[WoaDmulL]

We could cover all cases:

normalize("Today I'm 😄") => Today I'm 😄
strip_emoji("Today I'm 😄") => Today I'm
describe_emoji("Today I'm 😄") => Today I'm happy