William_J_G Overington <wjgo underscore 10009 at btinternet dot com> wrote:
> Further to that point of order, is there any rule that absolutely > prevents the deprecated status of a character or collection of > characters being removed? UTC has not ever shown the slightest inclination to do so, if that answers your question. > I feel that by hybridizing the suggestions of Doug and Philippe that > an elegant solution using tags and an advanced format font could be > designed. I had forgotten that the Regional Indicator Symbols from U+1F1E6 through U+1F1FF had already been encoded. You can create such a font today if you like, mapping pairs of these symbols to a flag representing the country with that ISO 3166-1 code element. See TUS 6.1, Section 5.10, next-to-last subsection (page 534) for details. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell
