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Unicode's mission is to be able to represent all written text. Once you decide that flags should be part of that you kind of have to include all of them. Includ
by wongarsu 2y ago
Unicode's mission is to be able to represent all written text. Once you decide that flags should be part of that you kind of have to include all of them. Including a flag in Unicode isn't a statement that you believe that this country exists, it's a statement that you think there are people who use this flag in written communication.
- hunter2_ 2y agoRegardless of what the upstream rebuttal is (i.e., Unicode's mission as you explained), I think it makes sense for the downstream entity (i.e., Windows) to simply indicate inheritance from upstream as a rebuttal to any pressure.
- int_19h 2y agoIt doesn't matter what you think the statement is. What matters is what the governments around the world, and specifically in places where you're selling your products, think it implies.
- Someone 2y ago> Unicode's mission is to be able to represent all written text. Once you decide that flags should be part of that you kind of have to include all of them. Unicode has decided flags shouldn’t be part of Unicode. There are a few flag emoji that got included before they reached that decision and there are “regional indicator symbols” that often get displayed as flags, but that’s it. They won’t, for example, include flags of cantons of Liechtenstein. See https://blog.unicode.org/2022/03/the-past-and-future-of-flag-emoji.html https://blog.unicode.org/2022/03/the-past-and-future-of-flag....