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Unicode doesn’t have codepoints for any of these. Unicode has defined a singular generic way to transform iso country codes (not even — just two of any characte
by scrollaway 2y ago
Unicode doesn’t have codepoints for any of these. Unicode has defined a singular generic way to transform iso country codes (not even — just two of any characters), and says it’s how you do flags.
- rozab 2y agoNo, unicode define the region subtags here https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/maint/maint-41/common/validity/region.xml https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/maint/maint-41/comm... You can see the country names alongside the codepoints here, ctrl+f for 'taiwan' and 'palestinian territories' https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-sequences.txt https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-sequences.txt
- dgfitz 2y agoI welcome the day I can identify my home as a territory and have it legally recognized. Who exactly decides this, in the actual code?
- lifthrasiir 2y agoSubtags are derived from ISO 3166-2, so you want to contact its maintenance agency.
- andreareina 2y agoIIRC someone else started it by applying a ligature to the appropriate regional indicator pairs, then Unicode adopted it.