Comment Comment by surround Apple started it. For a time, a text like this:> Let’s meet at the park [pistol emoji]Would have have very different meanings between platforms.Eventually, all platforms followed Apple and switched to the water pistol. (The ones that still show real pistols are obsolete fonts.)https://emojipedia.org/pistolAt this point, Apple gets to decide what emojis look like, not the Unicode Consortium. parent surround 6 years ago
> Let’s meet at the park [pistol emoji]
Would have have very different meanings between platforms.
Eventually, all platforms followed Apple and switched to the water pistol. (The ones that still show real pistols are obsolete fonts.)
https://emojipedia.org/pistol
At this point, Apple gets to decide what emojis look like, not the Unicode Consortium.