Hi all, I am the one who made the request to tweemoji Github.
2015-02-09 20:16 GMT+01:00 Markus Scherer <markus....@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Andrea Giammarchi < > andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > if a cultural/language TLD is typed with Unicode RIS, then show the >> flag for these culture/language: >> > > This does not work. The "Unicode RIS" are defined to be used in pairs, > with semantics according to corresponding ISO 3166 alpha2 codes. In your > examples, each successive pair will encode a flag. > > AFAIK, this is done in font side. Emoji flags are just ligatures, so a font can provide a ligature for 4 RIS characters. This is not an issue here. I agree some strange behaviour can appear if a 3 RIS string, take CAT, is shown in a system with only 2 RIS support (a Canadian will appear followed by a T). If you want to represent every flag of every locality, you first have to > figure out how to catalog and label them. You are mentioning provinces, one > level down from nation states; I guess there are thousands of them. In much > of Europe, every little village <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterstadt> > has its own flag and coat of arms. Where do you want the text encoding and > fonts to stop? > > I don't request flag support for every flag in the world. I requested flags for culture/language communities *with* an approved TLD (Top Level Domain). I know flags are an issue, and I know flags represents territories, not languages, but I think some support should be done for these active communities. As I pointed, some country flag collections expand with a fews non-independent country. See [1], [2] and [3] (search for Scottish or Welsh flag). You can check this [4] petition requesting Catalan flag on WhatsApp. So, there is a demand and they are used in real world. What's the way for encoding them in Unicode standard? Thanks, Joan Montané [1] http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/flags/ [2] https://www.gosquared.com/resources/flag-icons/ [3] http://www.sherv.net/flag-emoticons.html [4] https://www.change.org/p/whatsapp-inc-incloure-la-senyera-de-catalunya-a-whatsapp
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