unicode
Will Faught
October 2023
How Unicode Country Flags Work
How do you encode politically-contentious country flags?
Benjamin Esham: Version 6.0 of the Unicode standard, released in October 2010, added support for emoji. Aside from the classics like 😃 (SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH), 👍 (THUMBS UP SIGN), and 💩 (PILE OF POO), the standard also included several national flags like these: 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇮🇹 In fact, the standard included every national flag, and in a way that won’t require the standard to be changed when new countries come into being.
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September 2023
All the ways in which you’re wrong about Unicode.
Unicode is much more complicated than it seems.
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