ASCIImoji is a small library which replaces certain keywords in texts with ASCII emoticons.

Features

• currently 296 different built-in emoticons/symbols
• interactive emoticons / generators
• configurable keyword prefix and suffix (defaults to parentheses ( ))
• support for custom emoticons

Current version: 1.6.0

Release types

• vanilla JS function | minified

• jQuery plugin | minified - for text fields in your projects

• Chrome Extension - asciify your browsing experience

• Mac OS text shortcut dictionary - system-wide support on Macs and iOS

  (generators are not supported though)

Just feed it some text and the processed string gets returned:

var asciifiedText = asciimoji('Hello, this is (bear)');
// Hello, this is ʕ·͡ᴥ·ʔ

If you want to change the delimiters of the emoticon keywords, add an options object with your values to the call.

var customAsciifiedText = asciimoji('Adventure time with [finn] and [jake]', {
  prefix: '[',
  suffix: ']'
});
// Adventure time with | (• ◡•)| and (❍ᴥ❍ʋ)

Call the plugin on your selector:

$('input,textarea').asciimoji();

If you want custom delimiters, pass in the options object:

$('input,textarea').asciimoji({
  prefix: '[',
  suffix: ']'
});

You can also do live binding so that elements added to the DOM later will have ASCIImoji enabled:

$(document).on('focus', 'textarea', function() {
  $(this).asciimoji();
});

Note: The jQuery plugin does not include the emoticon dictionary. To use the plugin you'll have to include both scripts into your page, the JS function and the jQuery plugin.

Define your dictionary like this:

var myEmoticons = {
  emoticon1: {
    words: ['word1', 'word2'],
    ascii: '<insert ASCII emoticon here>'
  },
  ...
};

Add your dictionary as additional parameter to the call:

var textWihCustomEmoticons = asciimoji('Look ma, more emoticons! (word1)', options, myEmoticons);

or with the jQuery plugin:

$(document).on('focus', 'textarea', function() {
  $(this).asciimoji(options, myEmoticons);
});

Packages are managed with NPM.

Build is done using Grunt.
To build, run: ./scripts/build.sh