Feature Request: Add localized tags, so that you can search for Emojis in multiple languages

[NotoriousNico]

As of now, it's only possible to search for Emojis in the default System language.
But it would be nice to be able to search for Emojis in multiple languages.

For example: My system is set to English, but my native language is German.
Depending on in which language I communicate, I'd prefer to be able to search for Emojis in either English or German.

I'm thinking about having a setting that allows us to define a second language.

Environment

• emoji-copy version(s): 25
• OS: Ubuntu 24.10

[FelipeFTN]

Hallo, @NotoriousNico! Thank you for opening this issue!!

Yeah, this might be a quite difficult feature to implement.
All the emojis are stored in a .db (sqlite) file, which you can found here: ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/emoji-copy@felipeftn/data/emojis.db.
So, you can take a quick seach into the database by running this:
sqlite3 ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/emoji-copy@felipeftn/data/emojis.db;
this will allow you to run SQL commands into the emojis database.
The table's name is also emojis, so you can do some queries like this:

• sqlite> SELECT COUNT(*) from emojis;
• sqlite> SELECT * FROM emojis;
• ...

What happen is, the emoji's name is stored as a simple string into this sqlite file. So, I don't know how a location or translation would be possible 🤔 Any ideas?

[NotoriousNico]

Hello @FelipeFTN!

And thank you for your reply.
I don't know if it helps, but the Emoji Picker Smile offers such a feature:

https://github.com/mijorus/smile/

However, this is a full Flatpak App and the GNOME Extension is complimentary.