No more RGI flag sequences

[Mark Davis ☕️]

The reasoning behind that has been at
https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#Flags (F2) for some time. The
feasibility issues behind that reasoning would have to change substantially
before FR could be revised.

Note however that all the subdivision flags remain valid; just not
recommended for general interchange.

Mark


On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 4:07 PM Doug Ewell via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org>
wrote:

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