Ken Whistler <kenwhistler at att dot net> wrote:
But the current RIS pair mechanism for representing flag pictographs
for countries is already "workable" -- it works and is widely deployed
and widely used -- without having guarantees that some particular
country may not decide tomorrow to change its official flag and hence
result in some particular pictographic display being obsolete in some
sense, for example.
Which brings up a counterpoint to gfb hjjhjh's earlier point:
Suppose a Twitter user wants to use "the emoticon with country X's flag
on it to show support for its current government," then the government
is overthrown by an enemy which KEEPS the existing flag, forcing the
government-in-exile to adopt a different flag? Now, the user who put the
existing flag in her tweets appears to be showing support for the enemy.
This is what happened in France during World War II, except of course
for the emoticon and Twitter and that.
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Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸
