Support skin tones for 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 emoji

mislav · mislav · commit da33f740a3b4 · 2023-03-29T14:47:00.000+02:00
diff --git a/db/emoji.json b/db/emoji.json
@@ -6416,7 +6416,7 @@
     ]
   , "unicode_version": "12.0"
   , "ios_version": "13.0"
-  , "skin_tones": false
+  , "skin_tones": true
   }
 , {
     "emoji": "👭"
diff --git a/lib/emoji/character.rb b/lib/emoji/character.rb
@@ -43,13 +43,20 @@ def add_alias(name)
     # Raw Unicode string for an emoji. Nil if emoji is non-standard.
     def raw() unicode_aliases.first end
 
-    # Raw Unicode strings for each skin tone variant of this emoji.
+    # Raw Unicode strings for each skin tone variant of this emoji. The result is an empty array
+    # unless the emoji supports skin tones.
+    #
+    # Note: for emojis that depict multiple people (e.g. couples or families), this will not produce
+    # every possible permutation of skin tone per person.
     def raw_skin_tone_variants
       return [] if custom? || !skin_tones?
-      raw_normalized = raw.sub("\u{fe0f}", "") # strip VARIATION_SELECTOR_16
-      idx = raw_normalized.index("\u{200d}") # detect zero-width joiner
+      raw_normalized = raw.sub(VARIATION_SELECTOR_16, "")
+      idx = raw_normalized.index(ZERO_WIDTH_JOINER)
       SKIN_TONES.map do |modifier|
-        if idx
+        if raw_normalized == PEOPLE_HOLDING_HANDS
+          # special case to apply the modifier to both persons
+          raw_normalized[0...idx] + modifier + raw_normalized[idx..nil] + modifier
+        elsif idx
           # insert modifier before zero-width joiner
           raw_normalized[0...idx] + modifier + raw_normalized[idx..nil]
         else
@@ -97,7 +104,11 @@ def image_filename
     end
 
     private
-    
+
+    VARIATION_SELECTOR_16 = "\u{fe0f}".freeze
+    ZERO_WIDTH_JOINER = "\u{200d}".freeze
+    PEOPLE_HOLDING_HANDS = "\u{1f9d1}\u{200d}\u{1f91d}\u{200d}\u{1f9d1}".freeze
+
     SKIN_TONES = [
       "\u{1F3FB}", # light skin tone
       "\u{1F3FC}", # medium-light skin tone
@@ -106,7 +117,7 @@ def image_filename
       "\u{1F3FF}", # dark skin tone
     ]
 
-    private_constant :SKIN_TONES
+    private_constant :VARIATION_SELECTOR_16, :ZERO_WIDTH_JOINER, :PEOPLE_HOLDING_HANDS, :SKIN_TONES
 
     def default_image_filename
       if custom?
diff --git a/test/emoji_test.rb b/test/emoji_test.rb
@@ -176,6 +176,15 @@ class EmojiTest < TestCase
       "1f9d4-1f3fe-200d-2640",
       "1f9d4-1f3ff-200d-2640",
     ], woman_with_beard.raw_skin_tone_variants.map { |u| Emoji::Character.hex_inspect(u) }
+
+    people_holding_hands = Emoji.find_by_alias("people_holding_hands")
+    assert_equal [
+      "1f9d1-1f3fb-200d-1f91d-200d-1f9d1-1f3fb",
+      "1f9d1-1f3fc-200d-1f91d-200d-1f9d1-1f3fc",
+      "1f9d1-1f3fd-200d-1f91d-200d-1f9d1-1f3fd",
+      "1f9d1-1f3fe-200d-1f91d-200d-1f9d1-1f3fe",
+      "1f9d1-1f3ff-200d-1f91d-200d-1f9d1-1f3ff",
+    ], people_holding_hands.raw_skin_tone_variants.map { |u| Emoji::Character.hex_inspect(u) }
   end
 
   test "no custom emojis" do

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -6416,7 +6416,7 @@`
`6416`	`6416`	`]`
`6417`	`6417`	`, "unicode_version": "12.0"`
`6418`	`6418`	`, "ios_version": "13.0"`
`6419`		`- , "skin_tones": false`
	`6419`	`+ , "skin_tones": true`
`6420`	`6420`	`}`
`6421`	`6421`	`, {`
`6422`	`6422`	`"emoji": "👭"`