Re: The encoding of the Welsh flag

2018-11-22 Thread Doug Ewell via Unicode
Christoph Päper wrote: We have gotten requests for this, but the stumbling block is the lack of an official N. Ireland document describing what the official flag is and should look like. Such documents are lacking for several of the RIS flag emojis as well, though, e.g. for  from ISO 3166-1

Re: The encoding of the Welsh flag

2018-11-22 Thread Doug Ewell via Unicode
Ken Whistler replied to Michael Everson: What really annoys me about this is that there is no flag for Northern Ireland. The folks at CLDR did not think to ask either the UK or the Irish representatives to SC2 about this. [...] If you or Andrew West or anyone else is interested in pursuing

Re: The encoding of the Welsh flag

2018-11-21 Thread Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode
We have gotten requests for this, but the stumbling block is the lack of an official N. Ireland document describing what the official flag is and should look like. “However, whilst England (St George’s Cross) Scotland (St Andrew’s Cross) and Wales (The Dragon) have individual regional flags, the

Re: The encoding of the Welsh flag

2018-11-21 Thread Ken Whistler via Unicode
Michael, On 11/21/2018 9:38 AM, Michael Everson via Unicode wrote: What really annoys me about this is that there is no flag for Northern Ireland. The folks at CLDR did not think to ask either the UK or the Irish representatives to SC2 about this. Neither CLDR-TC nor SC2 has any

Re: The encoding of the Welsh flag

2018-11-21 Thread Michael Everson via Unicode
What really annoys me about this is that there is no flag for Northern Ireland. The folks at CLDR did not think to ask either the UK or the Irish representatives to SC2 about this. Yes, there is no “official flag” for Northern Ireland. But there is one _universally_ used in sport, and that

Re: The encoding of the Welsh flag

2018-11-21 Thread Ken Whistler via Unicode
On 11/21/2018 8:00 AM, William_J_G Overington via Unicode wrote: Yet the interoperability does not derive from an International Standard. The interoperability that enabled your mail to be delivered to me derives in part from the MIME standard (RFC 2045 et seq.) which is not an International

Re: The encoding of the Welsh flag

2018-11-21 Thread William_J_G Overington via Unicode
Ken Whistler wrote as follows. > A flag emoji is represented via a character sequence -- in this particular > case by an emoji tag sequence, as specified in UTS #51. > The representation of flag emoji via emoji tag sequences is *OUT OF SCOPE* > for both the Unicode Standard and for ISO/IEC

Re: The encoding of the Welsh flag

2018-11-20 Thread Ken Whistler via Unicode
for the Welsh flag included in both The Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646 or is it only encoded in The Unicode Standard or is it in neither The Unicode Standard nor ISO/IEC 10646? Neither. A flag emoji is represented via a character sequence -- in this particular case by an emoji tag sequence

The encoding of the Welsh flag

2018-11-20 Thread William_J_G Overington via Unicode
In Unicode® Technical Standard #51 Unicode Emoji there is the encoding for the Welsh flag. This is in the section http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Sample_Valid_Emoji_Tag_Sequences In the Status section near the start of the document is the following. quote A Unicode Technical Standard