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"underage" shortcode confusing and misleading #221

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moss-weaver opened this issue Feb 28, 2023 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #227
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"underage" shortcode confusing and misleading #221

moss-weaver opened this issue Feb 28, 2023 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #227

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1F51E has the official name of NO ONE UNDER EIGHTEEN, but the current shortcode is "underage", which has the exact opposite meaning.

Users on social media platforms who produce adult content often use this emoji in their usernames, to signify that their content is not suitable for minors. In this context, seeing the word "underage" next to an account like this is obviously bad.

Yes, https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html provides "underage" as a keyword for that codepoint, but it also provides "smoking" for NO_SMOKING and "bicycle" for NO_BICYCLES, and yet they have the shortcodes "no_smoking" and "no_bicycles" respectively. In fact "underage" is the only prohibitive sign from the warning category with this issue, so it is not only wrong but also inconsistent.

I suggest changing the name to something like "no_one_under_eighteen" or "no_underage" to correctly reflect the emoji's meaning.

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Hi, @iamcal are there any plans to address this issue, considering a relevant PR has been hanging for over a year?

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