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by throw7 302 days ago
unicode did not magically get rid of proprietary implementations... e.g. apple's "pistol".
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Gigachad 301 days ago
That's not a proprietary implementation, it's a font. Unicode doesn't define how a character renders more than giving a suggestion. It's fully up to the font how it should display.
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arp242 302 days ago
A single disagreement over something does not make things "proprietary". And it's been what, ten years? Honestly, get over it.
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eadmund 302 days ago
Apple displays the pistol emoji as a squirt gun. That’s wrong. It has always been wrong. It will always be wrong, because a squirt gun is not a pistol. Time doesn’t erase an error. ‘Get over it’ is the wrong response: ‘Apple, stop being wrong’ is the correct one.
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arp242 302 days ago
The name in Unicode for U+1F52B is "water pistol". For better or worse, everyone uses a water pistol now and has for years.
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weinzierl 302 days ago
Not in my book, which is The Unicode Standard, Version 16.0.

    1F52B PISTOL = handgun, revolver
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf
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