gfb hjjhjh <c933103 at gmail dot com> wrote:
Wouldn't the existence of Regional Indicator Symbols(=those flag symbols) themselves avoided the need of adding new regional/national/ international flags already? and the 2013 addition do not add flag themselves to the unicode, just some special form of letters that can be used to form flags.
And in fact, the Regional Indicator Symbols were added in Unicode 6.0 (October 2010), more than a year before the proposal to encode US FLAG as a unitary character was even written. And the non-approval text in 2013 specifically mentioned the RIS as one of the reasons for rejecting the unitary character. There's no contradiction.
-- Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸
