Sorry, my reply was sended CC: to Unicode ML, My apologies,
Joan Montané 2015-02-09 22:11 GMT+01:00 Joan Montané <j...@montane.cat>: > > Hi all, > > I am the one who made the request to tweemoji Github. > > > 2015-02-09 20:16 GMT+01:00 Markus Scherer <markus....@gmail.com>: > >> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Andrea Giammarchi < >> andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> > if a cultural/language TLD is typed with Unicode RIS, then show the >>> flag for these culture/language: >>> >> >> This does not work. The "Unicode RIS" are defined to be used in pairs, >> with semantics according to corresponding ISO 3166 alpha2 codes. In your >> examples, each successive pair will encode a flag. >> >> > AFAIK, this is done in font side. Emoji flags are just ligatures, so a > font can provide a ligature for 4 RIS characters. This is not an issue here. > > I agree some strange behaviour can appear if a 3 RIS string, take CAT, is > shown in a system with only 2 RIS support (a Canadian will appear followed > by a T). > > > If you want to represent every flag of every locality, you first have to >> figure out how to catalog and label them. You are mentioning provinces, one >> level down from nation states; I guess there are thousands of them. In much >> of Europe, every little village >> <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterstadt> has its own flag and coat of >> arms. Where do you want the text encoding and fonts to stop? >> >> > I don't request flag support for every flag in the world. I requested > flags for culture/language communities *with* an approved TLD (Top Level > Domain). > > I know flags are an issue, and I know flags represents territories, not > languages, but I think some support should be done for these active > communities. As I pointed, some country flag collections expand with a fews > non-independent country. See [1], [2] and [3] (search for Scottish or > Welsh flag). You can check this [4] petition requesting Catalan flag on > WhatsApp. > > So, there is a demand and they are used in real world. What's the way for > encoding them in Unicode standard? > > Thanks, > > Joan Montané > > [1] http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/flags/ > [2] https://www.gosquared.com/resources/flag-icons/ > [3] http://www.sherv.net/flag-emoticons.html > [4] > https://www.change.org/p/whatsapp-inc-incloure-la-senyera-de-catalunya-a-whatsapp >
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