Oddbean new post about login | logout isn't it strange how unicode has no real gun, or rifle... just this piss: 🔫 i mean pistol and yet we have these: 💣 🧨 💥 ⚔️ 🔪 these 5 elements represent things that often are associated with terrorism or murder
the preggy man still tops the charts: 🫃
🫃 yeah, show me one case and i'll concede lol
amazing that orginary dudes are seeing this and going https://cdn.satellite.earth/3e4951094c6983a0ee75b33e96537a2ced81d452fa1ebb1d88e297a1ad19a30b.gif on the inside and on the outside: https://cdn.satellite.earth/b0c5059cb7c98e550192a533ca7e843b6cc16446b2860421a11917e97dc5a7d7.jpg
It was not always so. See https://emojipedia.org/pistol "Originally depicted as a classic handgun, as a revolver or other pistol. In 2016, Apple switched its design from weapon to toy; other major vendors followed suit by 2018. Deprecated emoji sets or smaller platforms still display the emoji as a handgun."
In fact, it does not appear to be unicode's error. Look at https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf (Unicode 16) where it describes the emoji in question 1F52B as "PISTOL = handgun, revolver" and furthermore (at least in Firefox's display of the PDF) it looks like a Beretta 92! This is an error of presentation in several implementations, not an error in the spec.
