No more RGI flag sequences

[Mark Davis ☕️]

The main issue for making N. Ireland be RGI was the lack of an
official flag. It is valid (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁮󠁩󠁲󠁿).

Mark


On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 10:29 AM Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:

> Mark Davis wrote:
>
> > The reasoning behind that has been at
> > https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#Flags (F2) for some time.
>
> Since I'm unlikely ever to submit a true emoji proposal (i.e. for a facial
> expression or animal or hand gesture), I probably wouldn't have thought to
> look at the "Submitting Emoji Proposals" page.
>
> That said, this passage in that section:
>
> > Adding further subdivision flags as RGI can also appear to play
> > favorites unless similar subdivisions also get flags, which could mean
> > “all other flags of that country” or “all subdivisions of greater or
> > equal population in other countries”
>
> doesn't seem to align with the decision to exclude Northern Ireland.
>
> > 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.
>
> That basically means no vendor will support flag images for these places,
> and they will not be interchangeable in any medium that uses Unicode.
>
> --
> Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
>
>
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