It's especially bad that they think that it was the Unicode consortium that changed the PISTOL emoji to a water gun. Does no-one at CNN use Android, Samsung or Windows? It's a pistol, specifically a revolver, on all those.
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Doug Ewell via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org > wrote: > http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/19/us/emoji-redhead-curly-black-h > air-trnd/index.html > > "Team Emoji (aka the Unicode Consortium) has approved some well-recieved > [sic] updates to the visual lexicon we've all come to love. One of the > most recent updates included black hearts and a unicorn, and they also > got rid of the gun emoji in favor of a much less threatening water gun > version. And shockingly, it has only been two years since Unicode > updated the icons with different skin tones." > > "Team Emoji (aka the Unicode Consortium)." What a legacy. > > -- > Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org > >
