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Given the context though we don't need to look at all possible hypothetical flags, only those that Unicode recognizes: https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/
by int_19h 2y ago
Given the context though we don't need to look at all possible hypothetical flags, only those that Unicode recognizes:
https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-sequences.txt https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-sequences.txt
This list notably doesn't have Quebec, Northern Ireland, or Somaliland. But it does have Taiwan and Palestinian Territories.
- lmm 2y agoHuh. Including England/Scotland/Wales but not Northern Ireland feels extremely arbitrary, to the point that I wouldn't be surprised if it ran afoul of some kind of discrimination law in the UK.
- int_19h 2y agoIt's much simpler than that - Northern Ireland doesn't have an official flag. In principle, Unicode 5.0+ emoji scheme allows encoding any subregion that has an ISO 3166-2 code, so just as Scotland is GBSCT(), Northern Ireland would be GBNIR(). But England, Scotland, and Wales are the only ones included in the "recommended for general interchange" list. I don't know why they haven't added any more subregions to that list, though.