Introducing EmojiCodec, a Bidirectional Emoji Converter for VS Code

I use emoji in more places than I probably realize.They show up in my Weekly Notes, Markdown files, website templates, little interface details, and the occasional bit of code. The annoying part is that the emoji I can see is not always the format I actually need.Maybe I need 😀 for HTML. Maybe I need \u{1F600} for code. Maybe I am staring at an encoded value and just want to know which emoji it represents. The usual workflow is to leave VS Code, find a converter or reference page, paste the value, copy the result, and go back to what I was doing.That is a lot of interruption for a tiny conversion.So I built EmojiCodec, a VS Code extension that converts emoji and encoded emoji representations without making me leave the editor.You can view the source and follow the project on GitHub. I also added a shorter EmojiCodec project page here on the site.What EmojiCodec doesEmojiCodec converts selected text between six formats:FormatExampleEmoji😀Hexadecimal0x1F600Unicode…