Leo Broukhis <leob at mailcom dot com> wrote: > With extensible self-delimited regional indicator sequences the > carriers will be able to come to an agreement and to petition Unicode > to register them as named character sequences symbolizing flags not > encoded by an ISO entity, like various rainbow flags, making sure that > the format of such sequences is guaranteed not to clash with any > existing ISO 3166 format.
There are already plenty of ways for companies and groups and individuals to request new emoji. This way would have the disadvantage of conflating non-regional flags with a coding system for regions, which doesn't seem like a good idea. > Also, ISO 3166-2 can have 2 or 3 letters or 1, or digits or a combination > after the dash; it makes sense to have the letters after the dash > self-delimited, if/when REGIONAL INDICATOR DASH is added to > facilitate encoding of ISO 3166-2 codes. I don't understand the significance of this part. -- Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸