Major vendors changing U+1F52B PISTOL �� depiction from firearm to squirt gun

[Richard Wordingham via Unicode]

On Wed, 23 May 2018 10:59:02 -0700
Ken Whistler via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> If you want stable and accurate
> conveyance of particular meaning -- well, write it out in the
> standard orthography of a particular language.

Preferably not of a living language, though even the semantics of a dead
language can wobble.

Richard.