Dan <d...@nnnne-o-o-o.com> writes:
Just adding a little feedback more about dealing with emoji
flags
coding on my station:
Claws Mail*: doesn't help a lot, blank with auto encoding or a
difficult hex representation with unicode; anyway it depends on
a
general font set in its preferences.
gedit*: depend on the general font of the editor.
NetBeans: depends on the fonts for the single portions of text
set its
preferences.
nano: display an easy bold "IT" at the place of the flag.
[my] RADXIDE (tcl/tk): display an easy bold "IT" like nano
behavior.
vi: display a difficult hex representation of the emoji.
* depending on one general font for text, often a
monospaced one, they will have no luck to display emoji anyway.
[A comment i posted in another forum recently, links extracted:]
In Unicode, what is visually a single 'character' / 'grapheme' is
not necessarily a single Unicode code point. For example,
different skin tones of face emoji can be created by combining a
specific face emoji with an emoji modifier sequence:
https://emojipedia.org/emoji-modifier-sequence
Similarly, what appears as a single flag emoji is actually the
result of combining two 'regional indicator symbols', which
together a two-letter country code, the official flag for which
can then be rendered as a single character - as long as the
software does so. If you go to the Emojipedia page for flags:
https://emojipedia.org/flags
you'll see that the alt / hover / mouseover text for various flags
says things like "The flag for Australia, which may show as the
letters AU on some platforms". This was the outcome of the Unicode
Consortium trying to get involved in various political debates
about which flags "should" and/or "shouldn't" be included. More
details on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_indicator_symbol
Thus, the issue is that some of the software you're using doesn't
'know' that certain Unicode sequences need to be represented
on-screen as a 'flag'.
Alexis.
