Ken Whistler replied to Michael Everson:
What really annoys me about this is that there is no flag for
Northern Ireland. The folks at CLDR did not think to ask either the
UK or the Irish representatives to SC2 about this.
[...]
If you or Andrew West or anyone else is interested in pursuing an
emoji tag sequence for an emoji flag for Northern Ireland, then that
should be done by submitting a proposal, with justification, to the
Emoji Subcommittee, which *does* have jurisdiction.
There is, of course, an encoding for the flag of Northern Ireland:
1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E006E E0069 E0072 E007F
where the tag characters are "gbnir" followed by TAG CANCEL.
What I suspect Michael means is that this sequence is not RGI, or
"recommended for general interchange," a status which applies for flag
emoji only to England, Scotland, and Wales, and not to any of the
thousands of other subdivisions worldwide.
The terminology currently in UTS #51 is definitely an improvement over
early drafts, which explicitly labeled such sequences "not recommended,"
but it still leads practically everyone. evidently including Michael, to
believe the sequences are invalid or non-existent.
I would certainly like to use the flag of Colorado, whose visual
appearance is very much standardized, but the vicious circle of vendor
support and UTS #51 categorization means no system will offer glyph
support, and some systems may even reject it as invalid.
--
Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
