#US FLAG WITH ONE RED STRIPE CODE#
This is a clever system that avoids Unicode needing to create a new code point for every country. Systems look up to see if a pair is valid, and show a flag instead. 🇺🇸 Flag for United StatesĬountry flags such as the one for the USA are created by pairing two Regional Indicator characters. Using the same concept as Rainbow Flag, Twitter supported a Pirate Flag in their Twemoji set for a number of years by joining the 🏴 Black Flag and ☠️ Skull and Crossbones before Unicode listed this flag as RGI in 2018. The drawback is that without consensus among vendors, users won't see custom ZWJ Sequences correctly across platforms and would instead see the individual parts. As such, it's possible for vendors to add more of these by joining two existing emojis together, if they wish. Unicode has listed this as being Recommended for General Interchange (RGI), meaning major vendors support or have committed to supporting this sequence.īy design, ZWJ Sequences don't require Unicode approval like a regular emoji does. Rainbow flag is a ZWJ Sequence of these two emojis: These generally aren't associated with any specific country, region or group of people-although the 🎌 Crossed Flags emoji displays as Japanese flags on all major platforms ( previously a South Korean flag on Samsung). It happens to look like a flag, but isn't encoded any differently to a 📻 Radio or 🎺 Trumpet.įlag like this (and 🚩) were generally added to Unicode for compatibility with the Japanese carrier emoji sets, or other pre-emoji fonts such as Webdings. 🏴 Flag for Scotland (GB-SCT)Ĭhequered Flag is the easiest of the flags.While the code used to display a flag might seem like the least interesting part of a flag emoji, understanding these details is essential in determining why these 268 flags specifically exist, and help frame the feasibility of new flags in future. Photo: Jeremy Burge / Emojipedia.įor each flag shown on an average emoji keyboard, there are at least four different ways it might be encoded behind the scenes. How were these 268 determined to be more eligible than any other flags?Ībove: Only 10 country flags were on iPhone in 2008.
With calls in recent years for emoji representation of the Aboriginal Australian flag, Transgender flag, Brittany flag, Kurdish flag (and many more) it's worth taking a closer look at the ways that flags can be added to the Unicode Standard, and how that impacts the set of flags available today.Īfter all, Apple's iPhone only included 10 country flag emojis in 2008, and now there are 268. As with most things Unicode-related, emoji flags are more complicated than they may first appear.
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