This FAZ article adds to the examples of todayʼs poor IT journalism in European newspapers, especially the most renowned ones. Despite of an occasionally misused literary background, authors are deliberately ignoring more up-to-date sources, among which:
http://www.dezeen.com/2016/08/02/apple-swaps-revolver-emoji-water-pistol-ios-gun-violence/ https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/thanks-to-apples-influence-youre-not-getting-a-rifle-emoji Iʼm glad of Appleʼs courageous initiative. It was only about removing the emoji property. Finally itʼs up to the vendors to endorse what their emoji keyboards will be looking like. More generally, it isnʼt as if Unicode and big tech companies were good to wrap up in colorful emoji all and everything people darenʼt write out with words. Marcel On 26/08/16 12:57, Karl Pentzlin wrote: > Today in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", one of the leading > German newspapers: The comment regards an UTC decision to refuse the > acceptance > of emojis for Olympic rifles, as well as the fact that Apple's IOS 10 displays > U+1F52B as a toy water pistol, as an attack on Free Speech: > > http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/apple-emojis-die-zensur-der-symbole-14404026.html?printPagedArticle=true#pageIndex_2 > > "Das Unicode-Konsortium wirkt wie eine Neuauflage des Orwellschen > Wahrheitsministeriums, > das die englische Sprache durch eine um schädliche Begriffe gereinigte, neue > Sprache > ersetzte und die übriggebliebenen Worte „unorthodoxer“ Nebenbedeutungen > entkleidete." > > ("The Unicode Consortium appears like a reissue of Orwell's Ministry > of Truth, which replaced the English language by a new one, sweeped clean > from harmful terms, and which removed "unorthodox" connotations from > the rest of the words.") > > - Karl Pentzlin > >
