The decision was led and championed by one of techs biggest companies: Apple.
Apple also mentioned that it would not support the icon on its phones and tablets.
Millions of people use emojis on Apples software platforms.
Earlier this year, the company announced it delivers as many as 200,000 messages per second across iMessage.
Unicode members are reluctant to talk about the rifle although it was a unanimous decision.
Many of these other items have been approved and added to the most recent version of the Unicode standard.
In the past, Apple has championed socially conscious emojis as well.
The final version of the Unicode 9.0 spec is expected to be released on June 21.
source: www.techworm.net
