New and old Apple
pistol Emoji
On a modern computer, every character you type into your computer be it English, Chinese, Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs or Emojis are represented by a Unicode codepoint. The Unicode consortium decides what should be included into this specification after being lobbied by the public, governments and corporations.
In 2010 the Unicode consortium published the Unicode 6.0 which added a
pistol Emoji (
) to the official Unicode specifications. Unicode does not define what a character looks like, that is up to font makers, but they define what the symbol should look like. In the case of the pistol emoji (code point U+1F52B), they commented that is should resemble a “handgun, revolver”.
Yesterday Apple stated they will be replacing the
pistol emoji symbol, which was a revolver, with a water
pistol. The mainstream media are hailing this as a victory against gun violence. In reality this is just a means to suppress gun culture. See the above photo for a comparison with the old and the new Applepistol emoji.
Meanwhile, the latest version of MIcrosoft WIndows 10 has just replaced their hideous Windows 8 and Windows 8.1
pistol emoji (a so called “ray gun”) with a cartoon
revolver.
This is the bizarre brave new world crafted by sensitive people and their lawyers...i feel safer already
good for microsoft
the rifle didnt make the cut tho...SMH@ this from the people who invented suicide nets.
What difference does this make
Youre probably one of the lily soft lavender scented liberals who signed the petition to ban emoji guns