Reorder emoji following standard order
Problem
Right now emoji are ordered alphabetically in the Award Emoji dropdown. This is non-standard and makes them hard to find because they're not in the order people are used to, which also groups them by similarity.
Proposal
Reorder them following the standard Unicode Emoji Order.
Before / after images:
Right now emoji are ordered alphabetically in the Award Emoji dropdown:
This makes them hard to find because they're not in the order people are used to, which also groups them by similarity. I propose we reorder them following the standard Unicode Emoji Order.
Steps
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Programmatically reorder in the emojiCategoryMap based on v12.1 of the emoji-ordering.txt and emoji-ordering-rules.txt -
Verify that the re-order approach is compatible with the existing emoji sprite. This is typically stored via local cache and we don't want to introduce any weird lookup issues during render.
Implementation Plan
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FE/BE to sort this out
@jschatz1 @dzaporozhets @dimitrieh @tauriedavis @hazelyang
Testing
Update and feature specs related to awards/emoji's that are affected by a different order Exploratory testing to ensure emoji's are in the expected order
Edited by Jay McCure