As @mroth mentioned in #5, he'd like to eventually replace the vendored emoji.json file with the official Unicode text files. Possibly from a combination of - http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-data.txt - http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-sequences.txt - http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/EmojiSources.txt - http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/NamesList.txt