An emoji cannot be an emoji without having emoji presentation. There is a rifle character that resembles, in form and function, the other Olympic emoji, it's ju

An emoji cannot be an emoji without having emoji presentation. There is a rifle character that resembles, in form and function, the other Olympic emoji, it's just not sitting in the set reserved for emoji. Any platform that wants to pick it up can use it, they can even put it next to all their other emoji if they want to. Apple, et al did not 'prevent' Rifle from being encoded. They just decided they wouldn't pick it up as an emoji for their platform, and the Unicode conference decided to move it to a different category based on that decision. There are literally thousands of characters that Apple doesn't encode for their platforms. I haven't heard whether Apple will be supporting: Osage, a Native American language Nepal Bhasa, a language of Nepal Fulani and other African languages The Bravanese dialect of Swahili, used in Somalia The Warsh orthography for Arabic, used in North and West Africa Tangut, a major historic script of China All of which were added to Unicode 9. >The two characters will still be part of the Unicode spec, but they'll be classed as black-and-white "symbols" instead of regular emoji http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/06/apple-and-microsoft-pushed-to-remove-the-rifle-emoji-from-unicode-9-0/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/06/apple-and-microsoft-pus...