Emoticon vs Emoji
First, we need to distinguish between "emoticons" and "emojis".
Emoticons are usually simple sequences of punctuations such as : ) or : D, so we detect them by regular expression.
Emojis include classic emoticons ( such as : ) → 
) and other pictographs. They are detectable by Unicode standard (for example, \U0001F300).
Emoticons | Emojis |
|---|---|
 |  |
Support status (April, 2017)
Sentiment analysis | Simple recognition | Sentiment analysis | Simple recognition | |
French | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
English | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
German | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Spanish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Italian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Portuguese | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Dutch | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Polish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Russian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Arabic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Turkish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Chinese | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Japanese | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Swedish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Norwegian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Danish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Korean | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Indonesian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Malay | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Vietnamese | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Thai | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Tagalog | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |