Rocket.chat: weight emojis so that initially suggested emojis are not too personal/awkward or negative

[RavuAlHemio]

Description:

Typing a colon (:) in the _Message_ input box shows an autocomplete list of emoji. This is currently sorted alphabetically, which sometimes places more personal emoji (e.g. :smil orders :kissing_smiling_eyes: before :smile:) or negative emoji (e.g. :thumb orders :thumbsdown: before :thumbsup:) in a more prominent position than more commonly intended emoji.

This is basically a duplicate of #19105 attempting to evade the close-issue-app bot.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open any channel or private group or private chat.
2. Click into the message field.
3. Type the beginning of an emoji name, e.g. :smil.

Expected behavior:

More commonly used/less personal emoji are offered before less commonly used/more personal emoji.

Actual behavior:

Emoji are offered alphabetically.

Server Setup Information:

• Version of Rocket.Chat Server: 3.7.1
• Operating System: Linux
• Deployment Method: unknown
• Number of Running Instances: unknown
• DB Replicaset Oplog: unknown
• NodeJS Version: unknown
• MongoDB Version: unknown

Client Setup Information

• Desktop App or Browser Version: desktop app, version 3.0.4
• Operating System: Windows 10 Version 2004 x64

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Relevant logs:

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[RosemaryOrchard]

The Unicode Consortium has a default ordering of Emoji: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-12.0/emoji-ordering.html

There are two choices of automatically updated machine-readable files which would allow for improved sorting. This would also match the emoji picker view (found by clicking the 😄 on the left in RocketChat).

[samrae7]

I'd like to have a go at this

[samrae7]

I had a look and I couldn't work out how the message box was being populated with a list of emojis, and why that was different to the list the emojiPicker gets. So not proceeding with this.