New sub-package: emoji

[colinodell]

A community extension already exists for emoji, but it's tightly coupled to Laravel and Github: https://packagist.org/packages/alt-three/emoji

Let's create a generic version which renders :emoji: input as Unicode emoji characters (and maybe bundle in some custom renderers which can render them as images?)

[GrahamCampbell]

It's not tightly coupled to laravel (apart from the require in the composer, which could be removed), and it's not coupled to github either actually - the parser just expects some abstract repository: https://github.com/AltThree/Emoji/blob/v7.0.0/src/EmojiParser.php.

[GrahamCampbell]

All of the things are meshed together in https://github.com/AltThree/Emoji/blob/v7.0.0/src/EmojiServiceProvider.php, and the rest of the package is decoupled.

[GrahamCampbell]

I'd be interested in getting emoji build right into the official extras package. The latest version is now at https://github.com/CachetHQ/Emoji, but has not been tagged yet. I'd like to be able to abandon both https://github.com/CachetHQ/Emoji and https://github.com/CachetHQ/Twitter in favour of official packages.

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Maybe we should chat about this in private. Can I instant message you somewhere?

[colinodell]

Hi Graham,

That sounds good to me! Feel free to DM me on Twitter or Google Hangouts (or whatever Google is calling their messaging platform these days)

[colinodell]

Moving this to thephpleague/commonmark#421