On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Christoph Päper < christoph.pae...@crissov.de> wrote:
> If I made an open-source emoji font that contained flags for all of the > 5000ish > ISO 3166-2 codes that actually map to one, would I automatically be > considered a > vendor? Do I need to have to pay 18000(?) dollars a year for full > membership > first? (That's peanuts for multi-billion dollar companies, but > unaffordable for > most individuals and many FOSS projects.) > ... Those are desired, for sure, but so are emoji flags for Kurdistan, > Confederated > States of America, Romani, Oromo, South Vietnam, Esperanto, Anarchy, > Communism, > Bisexuality, Transgenderism, Sami, Pan-Africanism, Australian Aboriginals, > and > many more. Of these, only the Kurdish and the Sami flag *may* be covered by > Unicode Emoji 5.0+ (possibly with multiple codes) until yet another > (Tag-based) > scheme is adopted. > Heh, I actually started an open-source emoji font that kinda does this: https://github.com/kreativekorp/vexillo It encodes not only some subdivision flags using sequences like [usca], [ustx], and [caqc], but a whole lot of nowhere-near-standardized-for-encoding flags under the XX code, such as [xxcascadia], [xxconlangesperanto], [xxpridebisexual], [xxpridetrans], etc. And hey, it works already in OS X 10.8+ and Firefox, even if it makes text selection a little dodgy. :)