See the meeting minutes and the actual utr51. Enviado desde nuestro iPhone.
> El may 16, 2015, a las 10:07 AM, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> escribió: > > L2/15-145R says: > >> On some platforms that support a number of emoji flags, there is >> substantial demand to support additional flags for the following: >> [...] >> Certain supra-national regions, such as Europe (European Union flag) >> or the world (e.g. United Nations flag). These can be represented >> using UN M49 3-digit codes, for example "150" for Europe or "001" for >> World. > > These are uncomfortable equivalence classes. Not all countries in Europe are > members of the European Union, and the concept of "United Nations" is not > really the same by definition as "all countries in the world." > > The remaining UN M.49 code elements that don't have a 3166-1 equivalent seem > wholly unsuited for this mechanism (and those that do, don't need it). There > are no flags for "Middle Africa" or "Latin America and the Caribbean" or > "Landlocked developing countries." > > Some trans-national organizations might _almost_ seem as if they could be > shoehorned into an M.49 code element, like identifying 035 "South-Eastern > Asia" with the ASEAN flag, but this would be problematic for the same reasons > as 150 and 001. > > Among the ISO 3166-1 "exceptionally reserved" code elements are "EU" for > "European Union" and "UN" for "United Nations." If these flags are the use > cases, why not simply use those alpha-2 code elements, instead of burdening > the new mechanism with the 3-digit syntax? > > -- > Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸
