The detection and counting of emoticon icons has been addressed previously.
As a follow-up on this question and the solution provided, I'd like extend it with ability to link the detected emoticons, unicode characters and emoji to their corresponding (textual) descriptions:
- emoticons (Western and Eastern, e.g. List_of_emoticons from Wikipedia),
- unicode characters (e.g. U1F600.pdf available from the unicode website (direct link is included in the previous stackoverflow question mentioned above),
- other emoji types, e.g. from the list of emoji frequently used in Twitter (twitter-emoji-list from the emojipedia website).
Is there any comprehensive solution already available for conducting such a translation, in python or perl, similar to the method implemented in Swift? If not, can you make a script that provides a textual description for an emoticon/emoji found in a string?