Emoji v17 / CLDR 48

[itsfolf]

I have attempted to begin work on #189

Judging by the v16 PR, the only thing missing should be po files/localization changes, as I did not understand exactly what needs to be done.

I am also currently using a mirror for emoji-test.txt as the official file looks to be temporarily unavailable.

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[milesj]

Is the change here the patch version being included in the url?

[itsfolf]

Yes, there's been a reorganization of the files but this one stayed in the same directory

[milesj]

@itsfolf Thanks for starting this. I haven't had the time yet. A few things though:

• The UTS 51 changes will need to be reflected in the generator code (if you haven't already). They can be found here: http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Modifications Sometimes no changes are required, other times a lot of changes are.
• The .po changes are very tedious. Some docs here: https://github.com/milesj/emojibase/blob/master/docs/new-major-checklist.md#update-groups-and-subgroups But it's a lot of trial and error. I basically have to reteach myself how it all works each time I touch this repo.

[itsfolf]

@itsfolf Thanks for starting this. I haven't had the time yet. A few things though:

* The UTS 51 changes will need to be reflected in the generator code (if you haven't already). They can be found here: http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Modifications Sometimes no changes are required, other times a lot of changes are.

* The `.po` changes are very tedious. Some docs here: https://github.com/milesj/emojibase/blob/master/docs/new-major-checklist.md#update-groups-and-subgroups But it's a lot of trial and error. I basically have to reteach myself how it all works each time I touch this repo.

As far as I'm aware there don't seem to be any implementation modifications in tr51, however I am not sure what I'm looking for.

As for the po files, I have generated the updated versions with generate:po, filled in the entries for en, merged all other locales with msgmerge, and lastly regenerated the shortcodes. I believe this resulted in the desired state.

The official emoji-test.txt is still missing, so that's a blocker on merging for now.

[milesj]

@itsfolf

The official emoji-test.txt is still missing, so that's a blocker on merging for now.

Yeah this is very weird. Have you found any announcement/post/etc about it not being available?

[itsfolf]

@itsfolf

The official emoji-test.txt is still missing, so that's a blocker on merging for now.

Yeah this is very weird. Have you found any announcement/post/etc about it not being available?

Not sure where to look. There seems to be some internal confusion that led to the deletion of the file, as both directories claim to have it.

https://www.unicode.org/Public/17.0.0/ucd/emoji/ReadMe.txt

# Unicode Character Database
# Date: 2025-08-15
# © 2025 Unicode®, Inc.
# Unicode and the Unicode Logo are registered trademarks of Unicode, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.
# For terms of use and license, see https://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html

This directory contains final data files for Unicode, Version 17.0

Public/17.0.0/emoji/

  emoji-data.txt
  emoji-variation-sequences.txt

The following related files are found in Unicode Emoji, Version 17.0

Public/17.0.0/ucd/emoji/

  emoji-sequences.txt
  emoji-zwj-sequences.txt
  emoji-test.txt

For documentation, see UTS #51 Unicode Emoji, Version 17.0

https://www.unicode.org/Public/17.0.0/emoji/ReadMe.txt

# Unicode Emoji
# © 2025 Unicode®, Inc.
# Unicode and the Unicode Logo are registered trademarks of Unicode, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.
# For terms of use and license, see https://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html

This directory contains final data files for Unicode Emoji, Version 17.0

Public/17.0.0/emoji/

emoji-sequences.txt
emoji-zwj-sequences.txt
emoji-test.txt

The following related files are found in the UCD for Version 17.0

Public/17.0.0/ucd/emoji/

emoji-data.txt
emoji-variation-sequences.txt

For documentation, see UTS #51 Unicode Emoji, Version 17.0

It was previously available under https://www.unicode.org/Public/17.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt according to Google caches.

[milesj]

That's funny, and then it's not available in either, lol.

[itsfolf]

If you'd like to move forward with a mirror, https://distfiles.alpinelinux.org/distfiles/v3.23/emoji-test-17.0.0.txt is probably trustworthy enough. It was fetched on Oct 20

[milesj]

@itsfolf Yeah that's fine. Seems like a legit distro.

[itsfolf]

@itsfolf Yeah that's fine. Seems like a legit distro.

Alright, should be ready for final review then.

[RealityRipple]

It's back in /Public/17.0.0/emoji/, as well as /Public/emoji/latest/ (which is where I've always gone for my copies), but still not in /Public/17.0.0/ucd/emoji/. Keeping to the fork might be more advisable to buffer from live changes like that, though.

[itsfolf]

It's back in /Public/17.0.0/emoji/, as well as /Public/emoji/latest/ (which is where I've always gone for my copies), but still not in /Public/17.0.0/ucd/emoji/. Keeping to the fork might be more advisable to buffer from live changes like that, though.

I believe this is where it's meant to be

[milesj]

Thanks for the contrib!