Install

sudo pip install e4u

or:

sudo pip install git+git://github.com/lambdalisue/e4u.git#egg=e4u

Required (Automatically installed)

• BeautifulSoup (for analysis carrier’s Web site and emoji4unicode.xml)

How to use

This library use emoji4unicode.xml to create conversion table of emoji. So you have to load it from filesystem or Internet. e4u.load() method load it from google code’s trunk url and recommended. if you cannot connect to internet, use e4u.load(file=r"some/path/emoji4unicode.xml") insted. The emoji4unicode.xml is found on http://code.google.com/p/emoji4unicode/source/browse/trunk/data/emoji4unicode.xml

Once you load emoji4unicode.xml, you can translate emoji with e4u.translate() method. To translate carrier’s emoji to unicode emoji, use the method like contents = e4u.translate(contents, **e4u.DOCOMO_TRANSLATE_PROFILE) To translate unicode emoji to carrier’s emoji, use the method like contents = e4u.translate(contents, reverse=True, **e4u.DOCOMO_TRANSLATE_PROFILE)

The code below describe how to use the library.:

import e4u
e4u.load()
carrier_contents = "\xF8\x9F \xF8\xA0 \xF8\xA1"         # Sun, Cloud, Rain in DoCoMo emoji
unicode_contents = u"\u2600 \u2601 \u2614"                      # Sun, Cloud, Rain in Unicode emoji

# DoCoMo => Unicode
contents = carrier_contents
expected = unicode_contents
# Translate emoji with DoCoMo profile (= {'carrier':'docomo', 'encoding':'cp932'})
result = e4u.translate(contents, **e4u.DOCOMO_TRANSLATE_PROFILE)

assert isinstance(result, unicode)              # return value is Unicode
assert result == expected

# Unicode => DoCoMo
contents = unicode_contents
expected = carrier_contents
# Translate emoji with DoCoMo profile with reverse=True
result = e4u.translate(contents, reverse=True, **e4u.DOCOMO_TRANSLATE_PROFILE)

assert isinstance(result, unicode)              # return value is Unicode
assert result.encode('cp932', 'replace') == expected

Supported carriers

Currently only DoCoMo, KDDI, SoftBank and Google is supported. the carrier name which you can pass to the e4u.translate() method is

• text - to text

• docomo_img - to img tag using DoCoMo emoji

• kddi_img - to img tag using KDDI emoji (recommended for PC or other device which doesn’t support emoji)

• softbank_img - to img tag using SoftBank emoji (not recommended, SoftBank may reject access from external so doesn’t work)

• google - to GMail emoji. I have no idea how can I use it but in case.

• docomo - to DoCoMo emoji. SJIS format (decoded as unicode)

• kddi - to KDDI emoji. SJIS format (decoded as unicode)

• softbank - to SoftBank emoji. Unicode format

Methods

e4u.load(filename=None, url=r"http://emoji4unicode.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/data/emoji4unicode.xml", loader_class=loader.Loader)

to load emoji4unicode.xml and build internal conversion table. this method never affect twice. use e4u.reload() insted to reloading library.

e4u.reload(filename=None, url=r"http://emoji4unicode.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/data/emoji4unicode.xml", loader_class=loader.Loader)

force to reload emoji4unicode.xml, use e4u.load() method insted for general use.

e4u.has_loaded()

return True if the e4u.load() method has called. use e4u.load() method insted for general use. never do like below:

# stupid way
import e4u
if not e4u.has_loaded():
    e4u.reload()

# smarter
import e4u
e4u.load()

e4u.get(id)

get emoji symbol instance for the id. the id is described on http://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoji4unicode/snapshot/full.html strip ‘e-’ from ID like ‘000’ for ‘e-000’ and pass as unicode format.

e4u.translate(source, carrier, reverse=False, encoding=None)

translate unicode emoji contained in source to carrier’s emoji or reverse.

e4u.translate_char(source_char, carrier, reverse=False, encoding=None)

translate unicode emoji char to carrier’s emoji char. faster than e4u.translate() method but cannot handle text. use it for letter conversion.