Re: English flag (from Re: How to Add Beams to Notes)
Ken Whistler wrote: > I suggest the following: > 10BEDE for an English flag (reminding one of Bede the Venerable) > 10CADF for a Welsh flag (harking to Cadfan ap Iago, King of Gwynedd) > 10A1BA for a Scottish flag (for Alba, of course) > Surely those would work for you! Thank you for your reply. Nicely! Those code points each have a helpful mnemonic. I had not known of Cadfan ap Iago until I read your post. I found the following. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadfan_ap_Iago I opine that we need to make it clear, for the benefit of some people new to Unicode who may be reading this thread, that those code points are in one of the Private Use Areas, namely Supplementary Private Use Area-B, so there could be problems using them in some circumstances due to lack of uniqueness in the use of those code points. http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10.pdf William Overington Wednesday 3 May 2017
Re: English flag (from Re: How to Add Beams to Notes)
On 5/3/2017 3:20 AM, William_J_G Overington via Unicode wrote: Surely a single code point could be found. Single code points are being found for various emoji items on a continuing basis. Why pull up the ladder on encoding some flags each with a single code point? Yes, a single code point for an English flag please. And one for a Welsh flag too please. And one for a Scottish flag too please. And some others please, if that is what end users want. I suggest the following: 10BEDE for an English flag (reminding one of Bede the Venerable) 10CADF for a Welsh flag (harking to Cadfan ap Iago, King of Gwynedd) 10A1BA for a Scottish flag (for Alba, of course) Surely those would work for you! --Ken
Re: English flag (from Re: How to Add Beams to Notes)
I think the UTC just wants to avoid the controversy and blame of deciding which flags are worthy of inclusion.However, I think that emoji users who are aware of Unicode will blame Unicode for whatever the vendors pickDavid Faulks
English flag (from Re: How to Add Beams to Notes)
Richard Wordingham wrote: U+1F3F4 U+E0067 U+E0062 U+E0065 U+E006E U+E0067 U+E007F (English flag) I looked at that and I realized that although I had effectively seen that encoding in http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-11.html though expressed differently, it was only when I saw it expressed as above that I realized that there is something gone wrong with encoding policy. There are at present ten totally unused planes in the Unicode code point map and yet that seven character sequence is needed for encoding an English flag. Surely a single code point could be found. Single code points are being found for various emoji items on a continuing basis. Why pull up the ladder on encoding some flags each with a single code point? Yes, a single code point for an English flag please. And one for a Welsh flag too please. And one for a Scottish flag too please. And some others please, if that is what end users want. William Overington Wednesday 3 May 2017
