Abe Voelker: > > I'm curious if there has been any discussion on all the major vendors > changing this emoji's depiction? ( > https://blog.emojipedia.org/all-major-vendors-commit-to-gun-redesign/)
Curiously, this happened right before UTC 155 in a possibly concerted (but at least not independent) manner by Twitter and Google at least. My comments on PRI 356 (UTS 51.11) from 17 April already seem outdated. <https://www.unicode.org/review/pri356/feedback.html> >From the single-line feedback I've received, it seems the issue has not been >discussed at the meeting in late April. (I've yet to review the minutes.) I'm >suggesting ZWJ sequences to distinguish between a firearm (🔫☠️) and a toy >(🔫💦) for PISTOL. This does not solve the valid compatibility concerns. > As a user I find it troublesome because previous messages I've sent using > this character on these platforms may now be interpreted differently due to > the changed representation. We must discourage the perception that emojis are only used in volatile text messages (often in walled-garden systems) and tweets. They also appear in texts that are meant to be read in the future as well.
