Richard Wordingham <richard.wording...@ntlworld.com>: > "Doug Ewell" <d...@ewellic.org> wrote: > > > "Not recommended," "not standard," "not interoperable," or any other > > term ESC settles on for the 5000+ valid flag sequences that are not > > England, Scotland, and Wales is just a short, easy step away from > > deprecation for these as well.
*Sigh* Instead of 26 RIS characters and all the TAGs, Unicode should have added a single new character: U+2065 Flag Code Joiner. > It's certainly on the cards that the sequence for the Scottish flag will > be deprecated in favour of an RI sequence. Which would very likely be U+1F1E6-1F1E7 🇦🇧 'AB' for Alba, because all other intuitive alpha-2 code elements are either reserved or already assigned.