[akx]

That UI is hilarious (for a given value of hilarious) in the sense that the search for emojis uses whichever input language you're using, even if your UI language is something else.

So, for instance to find the light bulb emoji, I need to start typing "valo" (light in Finnish), which really threw me off at first.

[belval]

The default Android keyboard has similar behaviour. I was learning Spanish so I switched my phone to Spanish then back in English at some point later. Yet the change never propagated to the keyboard for some reason so my emojis are still in Spanish.

[Razengan]

eggplants in Spanish

[chordalkeyboard]

la berenjena

[Nition]

I originally thought the typing didn't work at all, because the couple of times I tried pressing Win+. the emoji UI came up, and it said "Keep typing to find an emoji", but nothing happened when I typed.

Turns out the search only works when you have a text entry area selected elsewhere.

[Razengan]

The iOS and I believe macOS emoji picker let’s you use any language to search for emojis. ハート brings up hearts for example.

[codetrotter]

But you have to switch to that language first.

For example on my iPhone if I type in Norwegian and jump to emoji then I can type “hjerte” and find the heart. But if I type “heart” then there are no results when the language is Norwegian. So if I want to search for emojis by English name, then I must first ensure that my keyboard is in English. And this is good I think, but wanted to point it out.

[garmaine]

On my phone at least (latest iOS) it will search any installed keyboard languages.