Also these yellow statements from the initial proposal are contradicting what is now published in TR51: "UN" and "EU" are accepted even if they are "macroregions", not satisfying the quoted condition 2 in the proposed update.
2017-03-28 1:58 GMT+02:00 Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr>: > This only describes the sequences encoded with 2 characters, not the newer > longer sequences for flags of subnational regions. the > unicode_region_subtag data does not contain anything about the flags for > the first 3 regions in GB. > > 2017-03-28 1:35 GMT+02:00 Markus Scherer <markus....@gmail.com>: > >> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr> >> wrote: >> >>> Note also that ISO3166-2 is far from being stable, and this could >>> contradict Unicode encoding stability: it would then be required to ensure >>> this stability by only allowing sequences that are effectively registered >>> in http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/5.0/emoji-sequences.txt >>> (independantly of the registration ins ISO3166-2), and nothing is said if >>> ever ISO3166-2 obsoletes some codes and then some years later decide to >>> reassign these codes to new entities: it should not be possible to do the >>> same thing in Emoji sequences, and specific assignments will need to be >>> made in the Unicode database. >>> >> >> The emoji sequences are stable. Please read >> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/proposed.html#valid- >> emoji-tag-sequences and follow the links to the CLDR spec and data. >> >> Let SD be the result of mapping each character in the tag_spec to a >> character in [0-9a-z] by subtracting 0xE0000. >> >> >> 1. SD must then be a specification as per [CLDR >> <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/proposed.html#CLDR>] of >> either a Unicode subdivision_id >> <http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/index.html#unicode_subdivision_id> >> (data >> >> <http://www.unicode.org/repos/cldr/tags/latest/common/validity/subdivision.xml>) >> or a 3-digit unicode_region_subtag >> <http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/index.html#unicode_region_subtag> >> (data >> >> <http://www.unicode.org/repos/cldr/tags/latest/common/validity/region.xml>), >> and >> 2. SD must have CLDR idStatus equal to "regular" or "deprecated". >> >> >> markus >> > >
