gfb hjjhjh <c933103 at gmail dot com> wrote: > As I read, should those flag be versioned when being use?As the > curremt implementation sound like those flag would change all over the > time, and if people using the emoticon with country X's flag on it to > show support for its current government, once the government have been > overthrown
Or not: http://www.newfijiflag.com > and the overthrown is internationally recongized with new flags and > thus being accepted, then what appear on one's timeline of their > social media would have their meaning shifted to the opposing side of > their original intention by simply updating their device, and for > those who haven't update their device they would see same effect from > message written by those who have already updated their devices. a > potential way to do it might be adding RIS for number and then append > those numbers after alphabetical RIS to show year of start while > retaining the unnumbered alphabetical RIS as they are today? This would be a great reason to remind users of emoji flags not to try to use them to indicate an "intention" that can have an "opposing side," such as loyalty or support for a particular political party or government. They aren't for that. A proper coding standard for flags (NOT in scope for Unicode) might have this sort of versioning feature, but even then, I would think the default (unversioned) behavior should be to select the "current" flag, whatever that is. -- Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸