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I like that they have stopped accepting flag proposals. They don't have any business trying to play geopolitics and they don't want to either, but as a result t
by toastal 4y ago
I like that they have stopped accepting flag proposals. They don't have any business trying to play geopolitics and they don't want to either, but as a result these legacy symbol must stay there for compatibility and new nations or those that didn't make the cut get no representation. We should use these flags a lot less anyhow—especially for language indicators.
- matthewmacleod 4y agoTo clarify, new national flags will still be added to the standard in line with changes to ISO 3166. So new countries will (as I understand it) still receive flags. This seems like a reasonable compromise, though it’s not without its risks either. But I agree generally that the addition of flags was, in retrospect, an unfortunate outcome.
- maeil 4y agoNot sure how this is a compromise by any means as it still means abiding by some arbiter to decide who gets to be a country and who doesn't. Outsourcing the arbitration to the ISO doesn't make much of a difference.
- smugma 4y agoApple removed flags from macOS 12.4 Monterey, replacing them with ISO2A characters
- toastal 4y agoI did not know this, and it's a really cool fact.