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Flag emoijis are a political nightmare. Who is a country? Who is an autonomous region? Which flag to use for disputed countries (e.g. do you use the taliban f
by bawolff 2y ago
Flag emoijis are a political nightmare.
Who is a country? Who is an autonomous region?
Which flag to use for disputed countries (e.g. do you use the taliban flag for afghanistan despite how much the western world doesn't like it).
Not to mention people might not like the flag changing in their own messages after a take over. Imagine if russia wins the war in ukraine and all the patriotic ukrainians suddenly have the ukrainian flag in their old writings replaced with russian ones after a software update. Feels like something out of 1984.
- ivanjermakov 2y agoWhile I agree that there might be political concerns regarding national flag appearance, but Unicode clearly defines country codes and corresponding country names: https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-sequences.txt https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-sequences.txt
- Kwpolska 2y agoAnd United Nations defines national borders, but countries disagree with that and complain to Microsoft, not the UN. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42823 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42...
- bawolff 2y agoI don't think the UN really defines borders, its more what other countries recognize and various international law rules. At most the un security counil can declare a defacto change in border should not be recognized (usually to ensure that an act of agression isnt rewarded with territory) but its actually super rare for them to do that and they have only done it a few times