Noah Slater <nslater at tumbolia dot org> wrote:
I found this:
[...] the UTC does not wish to entertain further proposals for
encoding of symbol characters for flags, whether national, state,
regional, international, or otherwise. References to UTC Minutes:
[134-C2], January 28, 2013.
http://www.unicode.org/alloc/nonapprovals.html
I think the phrase "or otherwise" above might have been intended to mean
"or otherwise."
I looked up the minutes, but could not find a more detailed
explanation. My guess is that these concerns related to geopolitical
issues. Hopefully the same rationale does not apply to the rainbow
flag.
My guess is that one reason certain rejected requests are added to the
Archive of Notices of Non-Approval is so that the UTC doesn't have to
haul out their original explanation or re-argue the same points when the
same request, or a similar one, is made again.
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Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸
