# Suggestion: emoji picker search improvement

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-emoji-picker-search-improvement/200573
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 16, 2021, 10:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-emoji-picker-search-improvement/200573 "2021-08-16T10:46:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![mentalstring](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mentalstring/32/168934_2.png) [@mentalstring](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mentalstring)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2021, 10:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-emoji-picker-search-improvement/200573/1 "2021-08-16T10:46:55Z")

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Today I was trying to find the 🎉 emoji (officially called [party popper](https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f389/index.htm), but shorted to `:tada:`) and muscle memory (with MacOS) has me trained to expect finding it by searching for `party`:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/6/f63c0a898a61aaf5b22a6dd26cd8109e0b0a4318.png)

However, Discourse’s emoji picker doesn’t find it for the same search term, even if it is part of the emoji name.

 ![Screenshot 2021-08-16 at 11.28.20](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/c/3c492c72c49241f16032531da7612bd46a532085.png)

Perhaps the emojis official names could be an alias to each emoji (when they differ from the short version) to improve search on the emoji picker?

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-emoji-picker-search-improvement/200573/2 "2021-08-18T00:59:25Z")

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I think we already have a built in mechanism for “aliases” @j.jaffeux I recall we discussed this problem previously.

I love the idea of upping the party level in our emoji selector.

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-emoji-picker-search-improvement/200573/5 "2021-08-18T19:11:39Z")

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Duplicate of [Add English and translated aliases for Emojis](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-english-and-translated-aliases-for-emojis/86641)

The data we need is maintained by the unicode consortium, here is the party popper:

> <https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml#L2711-L2712>

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-emoji-picker-search-improvement/200573/6 "2021-08-19T02:45:24Z")

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