Hi Doug, Do you know who represents the US on ISO 3166?
Anshu > On Aug 28, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Philippe Verdy wrote: > >> Well it is still not so universal as there are wide ranges of glyphs >> excluded for now to encoding as characters: >> [...] >> - country flags have been included but many regional emblems are >> excluded (as they don't match any ISO 3166-1 code) > > There are tentative plans (again) to provide a composite encoding for flags > corresponding to country subdivisions encoded in ISO 3166-2. > > Unicode and 10646 have done well so far to avoid judging for themselves which > regions or groups deserve encoding over others, and sticking with the > decisions of ISO 3166/MA instead. > >> - common road signs/street signs and signs for indoor facilities & >> services > > I wouldn't doubt those are coming soon. > >> - various box drawing characters used in legacy terminals (notably in >> Teletext and on older 8-bit systems): a few of them were added from >> DOS/OEM codepages. > > I thought that set had been pretty much completed by now. I wonder which one > are supposedly still missing. > > -- > Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
