RE: Emoji: National Flag Symbols

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Tue Dec 23 2008 - 23:18:59 CST


Mark's statement does not in any way that I can see entail and agreement to comprehensively add national flags.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Michael Everson
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 11:21 AM
To: unicode Unicode Discussion
Subject: Re: Emoji: National Flag Symbols

On 21 Dec 2008, at 19:08, Mark Davis wrote:

> The UTC discussed this, and the consensus was to just do the flags
> that were needed for compatibility. Of course, that does not
> preclude adding other flags later.

We get pushback on encoding superscript or combining Latin letters
comprehensively, and yet now you'll agree to comprehensively adding
national flags on no particular schedule?

Inconsistency, thy name is UTC.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com



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