Switch to Emojibase for data source

[rugk]

Given that your current data source emoji-mart seems to be not well-maintained and lacking behind Unicode standards (see iamcal/emoji-data#145 / #269), maybe it would be a good idea to look into alternatives?

https://milesj.gitbook.io/emojibase/ seems to be a good one.

• it uses the official data
• Unicode 12 emojis
• Emoticon short codes even
• it would also solve Provide i18n for multiple languages within emoji-mart itself #303 as it has translated emoji terms etc.

Only con point:

• does not have any images as far as I see, but maybe you could combine the sources? (for native emojis it would be more than enough)

[nolanlawson]

At some point we will need to solve #269, yes. Every year the current emoji set gets more and more out of date.

OTOH this issue seems to be a duplicate of #269, so maybe we should keep discussion there? Switching to another emoji data set is definitely an option IMO.

[rugk]

I'd like to bring this up again. Emojibase seems to be way more elaborate. Also the doc is way better as far as I see.

They have their own website after all: https://emojibase.dev/

And they included things like translations already, see iamcal/emoji-data#148 (comment) (which is our issue #303).

So in the long run, switching to that emoji lib may be beneficial and make it easier to maintain this emoji picker here.