> ("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.")So I took another look and saw that: (1) U+1F946 RIFLE has the following cross-reference in NamesList.txt: = marksmanship, shooting, hunting which does not include any mention of squirt guns or water pistols, or generally bowdlerizing the image or changing the intent of this code point; (2) Section 22.9 "Miscellaneous Symbols" in TUS 9.0 does not make any mention of modifying the RIFLE glyph, or symbol glyphs in general, so as to alter their meaning; (3) the code chart at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F900.pdf clearly shows a rifle, and not any other type of gun or non-gun. I can imagine people with time on their hands criticizing Apple for changing the glyph, but how did the Unicode Consortium itself get dragged into this? What obvious thing am I missing? -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
