Re:Emoji Kitchen
by laurensr on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @07:00AM
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That's probably also why we don't have a real gun emoji (or it's rendered as a water pistol in many places).
Although guns aren't the nicest invention, they are real and sometimes need to be represented graphically.
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Re:Emoji Kitchen
by xenomachina on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @09:00AM
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The pistol emoji originally looked like a real gun. I think only Windows had a fake looking gun (more of a ray gun than a water pistol) initially.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150625033351/https://unicode.o...
The change to a water pistol started with Apple in 2016, and then other companies followed:
Re:Emoji Kitchen
by schroeding on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @08:47AM
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This was so important for (american) vendors and the (more or less american) committee that they even retroactively changed the standard from "pistol" to "water pistol", in the light of (american) gun violence.