Translate unicode emojis to ascii emojis in Python
问题 Is there a way to translate unicode emojis to an appropriate ascii emoticon in Python? I know the emoji library which can be used to convert unicode emojis to something like :crying_face:. But what I would need is to convert it to :'( Is there an elegant way to do this without having to translate every possible emoji manually? Another option would be to convert the ascii emojis also to their textual representation, i.e. :'( should become :crying_face:. My intermediate goal is to find a way to