This is a simple weechat plugin that allows you insert unicode faces into the current buffer.
/emote tableflip
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- Profit.
Copy the script to ~/.weechat/python/autoload
mkdir -p ~/.weechat/python/autoload
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keith/emote-weechat/master/emote.py ~/.weechat/python/autoload
This is a python rewrite of this plugin