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It's a bit confusing that folks who consider Taiwan a province and not a country wouldn't take issue (or at least see it as a minor issue relative to the presen

It's a bit confusing that folks who consider Taiwan a province and not a country wouldn't take issue (or at least see it as a minor issue relative to the presence of a flag) with it being included among ISO country codes. In other words, if Microsoft were to be walking on eggshells enough to omit flags wholesale, I'm surprised they don't also omit all things that enumerate ISO country codes. I see your point that flags elicit a different reaction out of people than territorial classifications, but simultaneously it seems to be the classification which elicits disagreement. "You can call it a country so long as you don't assign a flag" seems like the wrong place to draw a line in the sand. Presumably, provinces can have flags!!

WorldMaker 2y ago
In this case, Microsoft also isn't saying "this is an ISO country code", it's just outputting the letters embedded in the ZWJ sequence as worst case fallback letters in an intentionally ugly fallback font block. Those letters come from ISO country codes in working flag emoji, but Microsoft's approach is "dumb passthrough", Microsoft isn't making any political decisions or validating the ISO country codes are actually ISO country codes or anything, it's just outputting "raw data" from the emoji contents itself. Windows also doesn't have an "ISO Country Code Picker" here. They don't provide tools to make flag emoji at all.