[REQUEST] Support emoji variation selectors

How would you improve Rich?

Add support for variation selectors. I have recently stated using rich and want to migrate from the emoji package. However, the emoji package lets me specify a variant_type when printing. This will then append a sequence after every emoji to ensure that the correct variation is printed. See the emoji package code in action.

What problem does it solve for you?

Current behaviour:

from rich.console import Console

def print_test():
    console = Console()
    console.print(":thumbs_up:")
    console.print(":warning:")

Results in:

The equivellent code for the emoji package with variant="emoji_type" results in:

We can obtain this behaviour with rich by changing the code to

console.print(":warning:\uFE0F")

But it would nice to have a flag on Console that automatically adds the sequence, so I don’t have to append it every time an emoji doesn’t render how I want it to.

[pd93]

Amazing. Thanks for such a quick turnaround on this. This is already one of my favourite Python projects 👍

[willmcgugan]

I’ve added variants to 10.6.0 You can set empji_variant on the Console constructor. Or by adding -text or -emoji to the emoji code. I haven’t added it to print since there are already quite a lot of arguments on that method, and you can reverse it with the emoji code anyway.