Regional Flag Emojis Primer Tutorial
Following up on recent “country flag emoji” thoughts we had with the recent Window SessionStorage Client Versus Server Flags Tutorial we wanted to research where the emoji developments are at with support for Regional Flags. It is very piecemeal at this stage, and for a couple of years now it seems only Great Britain (GB) …
- England
- Scotland
- Wales
… regional emoji flag definitions are “accepted”. By “accepted” we don’t mean that we don’t know how to define the HTML (Entities) needed to define them if they eventually appear, it is more that the vetting of a new such Regional Flag has not happened yet. In researching this, some discussions go back to 2017, so we guess there is no real hurry about this. You can read a bit at Emoji Flags Explained and Regional Flag Support For Unicode in 2017, thanks.
To then test some of this for yourself, because it is platform dependent, you can try our regional_flags.html‘s proof of concept web application … or …
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