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The standard is Unicode. The ant is U+1F41C. I have mixed feelings about emojis in the Unicode standard. Apparently this is a Unicode character 'PISTOL': https
by leni536 8y ago
The standard is Unicode. The ant is U+1F41C. I have mixed feelings about emojis in the Unicode standard. Apparently this is a Unicode character 'PISTOL':
https://emojipedia.org/pistol/ https://emojipedia.org/pistol/
- andai 8y agoVery interesting, in this case there isn't just a different design or different appearance between devices, but it's actually a different object.
- rjvbk 8y agoIn this case it was a political change; some OEMs caved and changed the pistol to a water gun and some did not. Emoji are a vital part of the way we communicate online so some see them as a prime way to push their agenda.
- saagarjha 8y agoI believe Apple led the way by changing the emoji to one of a water pistol, and other companies (most notably, those that primarily run apps) changed theirs to follow suit.
- retSava 8y agoUnnecessary nitpicking, but most that don't show a water pistol or similar, actually show a revolver, not a pistol. There are differences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoI heard (but I may have misheard / misremembered) they're actually planning to remove that emoji from the standard. It's an er, interesting position that the emoji standards committee (if that's the term) finds itself in. Do they have the right to determine discourse? There have been small riots (if that's the right term) about skin colors, genders, family composition, jobs, and now about weapons as well. They have the job (which I don't envy) to design an international language that is able to express a lot of concepts and emotions on the one hand, but on the other not to offend if possible. And then there's the implementers, who have to add an extra layer to it - like the Apple crash bug which was caused by a certain flag emoji being available in one country but not the other.
- leni536 8y ago>They have the job (which I don't envy) to design an international language that is able to express a lot of concepts and emotions on the one hand, but on the other not to offend if possible. Why is their job to avoid offending anyone? Why a pistol emoji showing a real life pistol is offensive on itself? It's not like I can't offend anyone using only the ASCII character set.
- coldseattle 8y agoHow soon before they remove white male emoji?
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- arrrg 8y agoThis won’t be a problem much longer: https://blog.emojipedia.org/all-major-vendors-commit-to-gun-redesign/ https://blog.emojipedia.org/all-major-vendors-commit-to-gun-... Sometimes you gotta break a few eggs to make change …
- anc84 8y agoSadly dumbed down to waterpistol instead of what it should be, a "pistol".
- Klover 8y agoShowing a revolver is not a display of extreme intellect, so it cannot really be dumbed down. It also shouldn't be sadly, as it's an emoji.
- anc84 8y agoWhat do you mean? This symbol was change in its meaning, I find that sad.
- madeofpalk 8y agoIt might be a sad decision to make, but nothing was 'dumbed down'. IMHO the 'correct' solution, if you want to remove the handgun picture is to remove it from the emoji keyboard (and possibly refuse to render it) and introduce a new water pistol emoji.
- Asooka 8y agoI'm pretty sure users will just learn to interpret it as a pistol, rather than water gun. Same like how the eggplant emoji means "penis" now.
- wild_preference 8y agoBesides, a small watergun graphic is just an often futuristic looking gun with neon colors. Hardly something that suddenly is unambiguously not a killing device.