Adding RAINBOW FLAG to Unicode

Garth Wallace gwalla at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 11:11:06 CDT 2015


On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Richard Cook <rscook at wenlin.com> wrote:

> Ken,
>
> I know that U+1F308 is RAINBOW ... because my nameslist lookup tool tells
> me so ...
>
> TCUTF-8Codepoint : Name : Annotations1[image: ��]C2_A01F308 RAINBOW
>
> <http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~rscook/cgi/nameslistsearch.html>
>
> ... but could [image: ��] also be a 'rainbow (flag)'?
>
> -Richard
>
> <http://wenlin.com/>
> [☯ iMM (iPhone Mangled Message)]
>
>
I don't think display of U+1F308 as a rainbow flag would be expected
behavior. It risks turning a text like "It's a beautiful day! [image: ��]"
into a political statement.
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