Emoji regex doesn't capture the variation selector after textual symbols about emojibase HOT 3 CLOSED

Thanks for pointing this out!

The regex is currently built using regexgen and the literal unicode character: https://github.com/milesj/emoji-database/blob/master/src/bin/generate-regex.js#L35 And based on the attached image, it looks like the default unicode character is the text representation (like you pointed out):

Now the best way to solve this... quite tricky. I suppose the default regex pattern should match everything, including text and emoji representations. I could then add additional regex patterns that are text only, or emoji only, etc. Will have to dig a bit deeper.

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This is fixed in the next version.

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Awesome! Thanks. 😄

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