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> Cool! Or do I mean :cool: ? I think you mean: 🆒 Though admittedly that shows up as a blank for me :( This one works for me though: 😃 So font makers, plea

> Cool! Or do I mean :cool: ? I think you mean: 🆒 Though admittedly that shows up as a blank for me :( This one works for me though: 😃 So font makers, please add all emoji to unicode fonts? Thanks! Also, why do Emoji have flags for 10 countries but not for all the rest?

pavel_lishin 12y ago
Neither of those show up in Chrome on OS X, but they do show up in Safari.
- lvillani 12y ago
  And Firefox, too
- bjz_ 12y ago
  Shows up on Firefox Aurora
scatters 12y ago
That's just Apple being typically arrogant (and other font designers following them, sadly). The way to write a flag in emoji is to combine the two letters of its country code; e.g. for the French flag you write REGIONAL INDICATOR F + REGIONAL INDICATOR R. The font then magically turns that two-character sequence into a single glyph. An emoji font could include up to 676 (26*26) flags; I think WhatsApp has something like 45 flags already (on Android).
- Aardwolf 12y ago
  Ok that flag thing is quite cool then actually! :)
- wodenokoto 12y ago
  My understanding is that Apple just included the standard Japanese emoji set, to help sell iPhones in japan. For a long time they were even hidden on non-Japanese iPhones. The standard Japanese emoji set is pretty randomly put together and I don't remember my old keitai having that many country flags.