Flag tags with U+1F3F3 and subtypes

[Andrew West]

On 18 May 2015 at 19:19, Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:
>
> Is the new mechanism intended to allow flag tags that include either
> "subtype" values or "contains" values? For example:

That is my understanding.

> <1F3F3 E0047 E0042 E002D E0053 E0043 E0054> (GB-SCT)
> for the Scottish flag
>
> and
>
> <1F3F3 E0047 E0042 E002D E004E E004C E004B> (GB-NLK)
> for the North Lanarkshire council area flag

I don't believe that North Lanarkshire has an associated flag, which I
think is the case for most UK counties and councils (Cornwall, Devon
and Dorset all have flags, but they may be the exceptions).  In fact
not all of the four nations comprising the UK have a flag -- for
political reasons there is no official flag for Northern Ireland, so I
do not know what an implementation would display for <1F3F3 E0047
E0042 E002D E004E E0049 E0052> (GB-NIR), perhaps just a plain flag
emblazoned with "GB-NIR".

Andrew