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If flag emojis are really a combination of 2 special characters, the reversal of the U.S. flag should result in having the Soviet Union flag.
by otagekki 5y ago
If flag emojis are really a combination of 2 special characters, the reversal of the U.S. flag should result in having the Soviet Union flag.
- TonyTrapp 5y agoIt's up to the installed fonts really. I don't know if the combination of S + U is standardized as a Soviet Union flag emoji, but even if it is, your locally installed fonts may not contain every single flag emoji, so the browser would still fall back to rendering the two letters instead.
- masklinn 5y ago> the reversal of the U.S. flag should result in having the Soviet Union flag. Except it has been deleted from the ISO 3166-2 registry, so not having it is perfectly valid (arguably more so than having it).
- account42 5y agoNo, that only shows that the ISO 3166-2 registry is a bad basis for Unicode flags since having things lose meaning over time should not be acceptable for a text encoding. Flags have another issue here in that they can change even when the country stays the same - a recent example here being Afghanistan, but also France who recently changed the official shades of the colors in their flag. Ideally you'd want a new Unicode representation for any changed flags in order to not retroactively change the meaning in old documents.
- brewmarche 5y agoJust tried reversing a Spanish flag with Python and indeed I got Sweden back
- kingcharles 5y agoNo-one expects the Swedish flag!
- jameshart 5y agoI was so disappointed that didn't turn out to be the case.