There's at least the demand coming from their use as Emoji. Attested as well in many books and many applications (not always colorful).
May be the UTC did not receive aformal request before, but the demand REALLY exists for the encoding of flags in plain text (not just rich texts). They are semantically significant and are not just a question of presentation. 2012/6/1 Asmus Freytag <[email protected]>: > On 6/1/2012 12:01 PM, Philippe Verdy wrote: > There's no demand out there for this feature.
