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The E0000-E007F block is the "Tags" block, which is used for flag emojis. But there is not a code for each flag. Instead there is a code for each ASCII charact
by Findecanor 3y ago
The E0000-E007F block is the "Tags" block, which is used for flag emojis.
But there is not a code for each flag. Instead there is a code for each ASCII character.
A flag sequence is formed from U+1F3F4 (Black Flag), followed by at least two tags that form a country/region code, and then U+E007F (End tag).
So, yes this is weird, because the emoji is dependent on the decoder. It was made this way to keep Unicode independent of geopolitics.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags_(Unicode_block) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags_(Unicode_block)>