https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ay4kb/guillotine-emoji-unicode
When you want to express your complete rage at the incompetence of leadership over text, in a way that says "I would like to see their heads removed at the neck with a large falling blade and rolled into little baskets" but less literal and more succinct, an emoji would help a lot.
Sadly, there is no guillotine emoji, despite "guillotine them" being the ruling sentiment of the pissed-off proletariat for the last... well, probably many years, but more lately, as tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in protests around the world.
Lisbon-based artist Carrozo is lobbying the Unicode Consortium to include a guillotine in its next emoji update, and has sent an application outlining why the people need the 18th century execution machine in their emoji lexicon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @07:50AM
Unicode "just" has a place for those. What's so bad about it other than working interoperability? You don't *have* to make/install fonts that show anything there. I don't use most of Unicode characters, doesn't mean it's not useful to have them there. You, English-worlders, were fine with ASCII, I remember. Interoperability for everyone else was a pain in the ass.