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That has to be the most idiotic emoji implementation - clearly not what the Unicode Consortium intended, and borderline against the specification.

• abritinthebay 9y ago
  > clearly not what the Unicode Consortium intended, and borderline against the specification. While I think the change was a bit silly so this this hyperbolic and unfounded statement. The specification merely states "pistol" and uses a silhouette of a gun as it's reference. Even if you argue that the reference is clearly an automatic pistol (reasonable) the specification in fact specifically states "The shapes of the reference glyphs used in these code charts are not prescriptive. Considerable variation is to be expected in actual fonts." So, as much as I disagree with the change (the intent was... well meaning if, I think, misguided) it is not only not "against the specification" - it's directly in line with guidance of the specification.