Can someone help me understand what this means for my rainbow flag proposal?
On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 at 10:02 Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: > I oppose this proposal for the simple reason that it thinks hyphen > separations are not necessary. Possibly true today but there will be > extensions in some future needing more than 2 letters or 3 digits in the > primary subtag. even for iso 3166-2 the regional subtags are very likely > to change and without separators the extension,s will become ambiguous > > 2015-07-01 10:15 GMT+02:00 gfb hjjhjh <[email protected]>: > >> <http://unicode.org/announcements/flag-snippets.jpg>The UTC is >> considering a proposal to extend the types of flags which can be reliably >> represented by certain sequences of Unicode characters. In addition to the >> current mechanism using pairs of regional indicator symbols—already widely >> implemented—the proposal would use sequences of the TAG characters in the >> range U+E0030..U+E005A to represent other types of flags. The proposal also >> provides guidelines to specify valid sequences of TAG characters and how to >> interpret them. Full details of the proposal are provided in the background >> document >> <http://www.unicode.org/review/pri299/pri299-additional-flags-background.html> >> . >> >> The UTC welcomes feedback on this proposed new mechanism. Feedback could >> consist of an indication of support or opposition to the proposal, with >> reasons why, or could consist of suggestions for improvement of the >> proposal. >> >> For further information, please see the Public Review Issues >> <http://www.unicode.org/review/> page. >> >> http://blog.unicode.org/2015/06/representing-additional-types-of-flags.html >> >> >
