Ken Whistler wrote: > By the way, if anybody is looking, Pomerania is there: "plpm" among > the 4925 other valid unicode_subdivision_id values. So: > > Flag of Pomerania = 1F3F4 E0070 E006C E0070 E006D E007F > > But alas, that is not a *valid* emoji tag sequence (yet), so no soup > for you!
This is a major letdown, after almost two years following the progress of flag tag sequences, to find that the arguments that "these three flags are special because they appear in international sports" have won the day and the others are demoted to "non-standard." That was never implied in any of the published UTC documents before. I've collected well over 800 subdivision flags, and I'm sure there are hundreds more, each with its own proud constituency. Vendors don't want to bother adding a glyph for Saskatchewan or Neuquén or Yamagata? They don't have to; they never had to. But now they're essentially being told not to. This was the only aspect of emoji I had the slightest interest in. Boo. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
