GEmojiSharp :octocat:

GitHub Emoji for C# and .NET:

• netstandard2.0
• ASP.NET Core
• Blazor
• dotnet tool
• PowerToys Run plugin
• PowerToys Command Palette extension
• MCP Server

🐙 :octopus:
➕ :heavy_plus_sign:
🐈 :cat2:
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❤️ :heart:

Content

• Introduction
• GEmojiSharp
• GEmojiSharp.AspNetCore
• GEmojiSharp.Blazor
• GEmojiSharp.DotnetTool
• GEmojiSharp.PowerToysRun
• GEmojiSharp.McpServer
• Samples
• Attribution

Introduction

Using emojis on GitHub is accomplish with emoji aliases enclosed by colons:

:+1: This PR looks great - it's ready to merge! :shipit:

:+1: This PR looks great - it's ready to merge! :shipit:

GEmojiSharp make this possible in C#. The library contains a static array of all valid emoji in GitHub Flavored Markdown. That is the intersection of the emoji.json database and the API with available emojis.

A visual referense of all GitHub Emoji:

• https://github.com/hlaueriksson/github-emoji

GEmojiSharp

GitHub Emoji for C# and .NET 📦

Static methods:

Emoji.Get(":tada:").Raw; // 🎉
Emoji.Get("🎉").Alias(); // :tada:
Emoji.Raw(":tada:"); // 🎉
Emoji.Alias("🎉"); // :tada:
Emoji.Emojify(":tada: initial commit"); // 🎉 initial commit
Emoji.Demojify("🎉 initial commit"); // :tada: initial commit
Emoji.Find("party popper").First().Raw; // 🎉
Emoji.Get("✌️").RawSkinToneVariants(); // ✌🏻, ✌🏼, ✌🏽, ✌🏾, ✌🏿

Extension methods:

":tada:".GetEmoji().Raw; // 🎉
"🎉".GetEmoji().Alias(); // :tada:
":tada:".RawEmoji(); // 🎉
"🎉".EmojiAlias(); // :tada:
":tada: initial commit".Emojify(); // 🎉 initial commit
"🎉 initial commit".Demojify(); // :tada: initial commit
"party popper".FindEmojis().First().Raw; // 🎉

Regular expression pattern to match all emojis:

var text = "Lorem 😂😂 ipsum";

var matches = Regex.Matches(text, Emoji.RegexPattern);
string.Join(string.Empty, matches.Select(x => x.Value)); // 😂😂

Regex.Replace(text, Emoji.RegexPattern, string.Empty); // Lorem  ipsum

GEmojiSharp.AspNetCore

GitHub Emoji for ASP.NET Core 📦

The package includes:

• TagHelpers
• HtmlHelpers

TagHelpers

Update the _ViewImports.cshtml file, to enable tag helpers in all Razor views:

@addTagHelper *, GEmojiSharp.AspNetCore

Use the <emoji> tag or emoji attribute to render emojis:

<emoji>:tada: initial commit</emoji>

Standard emoji characters are rendered like this:

<g-emoji class="g-emoji" alias="tada" fallback-src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f389.png">🎉</g-emoji>

Custom GitHub emojis are rendered as images:

Use CSS to properly position the custom GitHub emojis images:

.emoji {
    background-color: transparent;
    max-width: none;
    vertical-align: text-top;
}

Use the JavaScript from g-emoji-element to support old browsers.