Steve Swales <steve at swales dot us> wrote: > Or a flag inversion modifier… recently I discovered that the > Philippines flag, for example, has a special meaning (we are at war) > when inverted. Just a thought.
An inverted ensign on a ship was formerly used as a distress signal: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/xf-flip.html I'd argue strongly against adding "modifiers" to Unicode flag tags to indicate inverted, waving, half-staff, folded, or any other transient state. -- Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸
