Adding RAINBOW FLAG to Unicode

Richard Cook rscook at wenlin.com
Tue Jun 30 11:42:32 CDT 2015





> On Jun 30, 2015, at 9:11 AM, Garth Wallace <gwalla at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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! " into a political statement.

Garth, 

Any statement can be a political statement, in the right context. But I think the main point of my earlier comment was that the specific glyph for U+1F308 might be indistinguishable from a flag. For example, this is the glyph in iOS 8:



Not a cloud in the sky.

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