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> determined by a big company (or by a standardization committee for that matter) In practice the big companies are more in charge. Apple changed the pistol to

> determined by a big company (or by a standardization committee for that matter) In practice the big companies are more in charge. Apple changed the pistol to a water gun (mentioned in the article and at [0]), and now all the big emoji sets from Google/MS/FB/Twtr/etc. also have a water gun instead of a pistol. Apple also succeeded at preventing the rifle emoji and the Modern Pentathlon emoji (which contained a rifle) from being included, apparently with support from MS. [0]: https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-and-the-gun-emoji/ https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-and-the-gun-emoji/ [1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/20/apple-rifle-emoji-phones-unicode https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/20/apple-rif... It's pretty stupid how every other big tech company follows every single bad decision that Apple makes. Removing 3.5mm jack, removing pistol emoji, notches in screens, and now getting rid of chargers. I personally do everything I can to boycott Unicode emoji. Some platforms like Slack/Discord allow for adding your own emoji which is nice. Language should not be controlled by a single entity.

mhh__ 6y ago
Why is not having a gun a bad thing?
- mandelbrotwurst 6y ago
  The short name for the emoji is "pistol". Apple deliberately and unilaterally made the decision to represent this as a water pistol, despite this being clearly not representative of a typical pistol. It's expected for individual entities implementing the Unicode emoji specification to exercise some amount of artistic merit, but if they're not at least in good faith attempting to represent the same type of object that the specification calls for, they are saying that they do not care about the decision that the Unicode Consortium made to allow emoji to be used to represent objects of that type, and that they should be the ones with the power to choose what can and cannot be said with emoji.
- benjohnson 6y ago
  Appel's modification could be disastrous if an Apple user sends a message intending "let's (squirt gun) the kids!" and it's received as "let's (pistol) the kids!"

mhh__ 6y ago

Why is not having a gun a bad thing?

mandelbrotwurst 6y ago
The short name for the emoji is "pistol". Apple deliberately and unilaterally made the decision to represent this as a water pistol, despite this being clearly not representative of a typical pistol. It's expected for individual entities implementing the Unicode emoji specification to exercise some amount of artistic merit, but if they're not at least in good faith attempting to represent the same type of object that the specification calls for, they are saying that they do not care about the decision that the Unicode Consortium made to allow emoji to be used to represent objects of that type, and that they should be the ones with the power to choose what can and cannot be said with emoji.
benjohnson 6y ago
Appel's modification could be disastrous if an Apple user sends a message intending "let's (squirt gun) the kids!" and it's received as "let's (pistol) the kids!"