BES island flags

Andrew West andrewcwest at gmail.com
Fri Sep 25 06:46:40 CDT 2020


On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 at 12:08, Richard Wordingham via Unicode
<unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
>
> 'EN' would have been incendiary.  'GB' can at least be explained as
> an abbreviation of 'GBNI'.  However, the common use of 'UK' instead is
> probably due to 'GB' being felt as wrong.

'UK' and 'GB' will both be wrong when Scotland becomes independent, as
seems increasingly likely.

Andrew


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