No more RGI flag sequences

[Doug Ewell]

I spotted this recently, by chance, in  L2/21-014, "Emoji Subcommittee Report Q1, 2021":

"RGI Flag Criteria Update: Moving forward, proposals to add subdivision flags or continental regions as RGI will not be considered by the Emoji Subcommittee or the UTC."

That means neither Northern Ireland, nor the states of the U.S. or Mexico or Germany, nor the provinces of Canada, nor the regions of Italy—many of whose inhabitants have as much pride in their homeland as the English, Scottish, and Welsh—will have their flag sequences tagged as RGI. (Continental regions, of course, do not have flags.)

That basically means no vendor will support flag images for these places, and they will not be interchangeable in any medium that uses Unicode.

Some of us find this unfortunate.

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Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Thornton, CO, US 🏴󠁵󠁳󠁣󠁯󠁿 | ewellic.org