Along with alphanumeric characters, African click sounds, mathematical and geometric symbols, dingbats, and computer control sequences, emojis can be represented as Unicode characters, making them computer-readable. Unlike alphanumeric characters and other symbols, however, emojis are maintained by the Unicode Consortium. The consortium solicits proposals for new emojis, and regularly selects which emojis will be... - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

ASCII isn't the only encoding method. You're looking at unicode characters, which can be expressed as numbers just like ASCII characters based on the encoding system . More to your point, if you were already in the mozilla documentation, why didn't you just read their explanation of how it's handled? Source: about 1 year ago

They are simply unicode characters. Https://home.unicode.org/ Try it in VS Code. Yes, an Emoji is valid in JS. Different browsers render the emojis differently though. Source: about 1 year ago

When you refer to something as an “Emoji” you indicate that they’re apart of the Unicode language. What Reddit is doing is not considered apart of unicode therefore not technically an “Emoji”, instead it’s just a plain old image used in text format. Source: over 1 year ago

For almost any character that needs to be added to computers globally, you go to bug Unicode and they may add it to a new version of the UTF standard. From there people who make relevant software will gradually adopt it. Source: over 1 year ago

Go lingojam.com and start creating a language. Source: about 1 year ago

I don't think there is a way to make custom IME yet, so the only way I know of is sites like https://lingojam.com that allow "translating". Iconic uses it for text<->emoji so it's not just for ciphers. Source: over 1 year ago

For anybody interested there is this website which allows you to create a translator for any fictional language of your choice. This slime language created by GPT could fit really well in there. Source: over 1 year ago

It's updated frequently, as is the link. You can probably just find the latest version of it if you just go to lingojam.com and select 'browse more translators". Source: over 1 year ago

At the end it kind of sounds like lingojam.com but idk for sure. Source: almost 2 years ago