2012/6/1 Asmus Freytag <asm...@ix.netcom.com>: >> They are not stable across history, so they >> should be versioned, but most frequent uses will omit the precise >> versioning, so that flags will be instantly replaced at any time (e.g. >> if you encode a flag for US, how many stars will there be on it ? > > Obviously these are all glyph variants?
If you speak about the flag of Lybia, differences are significant when there are opposed parties. During the last Libyan revolution, those flags were used very distinctly. They were not free variants of each other. Yes you may have a genic flag code that maps to the latest version of the flag, but versioned flags should be encoded separately. Similar to the encoding of languages : you may have "en" or "en-US" vs. "en-GB" and several subtags for variants...
