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Parade raining time: https://feddit.de/comment/3373323
- I believe flags are sorted alphabetically by how they are internally represented. All flags are a combination of two special letter-symbols. For the UK flag, these two symbols are “GB”, therefore the UK flag should be much earlier.
- 🇺🇸 (Flag of the USA [code: US]) ≠ 🇺🇲 (Flag of the US Outlying Islands [code: UM])
Yes, the first US flag, which most people pick, is actually the flag of the US Outlying Islands. Whenever you see someone use the US flag emoji, check whether they accidentally used the " wrong" one.
There's a difference? I do need glasses but I can't see any different between those 2 flags
The only difference is the name of the emoji, the image itself is identical. There are also three Norwegian flag emojis for example, all identical.
Oh ok that is totally not confusing at all why they have so many coded when only one would do
Essentially the Unicode consortium did not want to make an international uproar by acknowledging certain countries and not acknowledging others. So rather than there being flag emojis there are 26 characters (A through Z) and when you combine two you have a country. How to display these is up to the font. I believe the standard (or at least the de facto standard) is to use countries' 2 letter ISO abbreviations. This also means the Unicode standard does not need to be changed for the addition or removal of countries.
So it gets tricky. Why do they have so many coded when only one would do? Well, how would they render the other when someone puts it in? Or what if there is a different font being used on the selector that renders them differently?
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Xexit?
Too close to "Xexy" 🤮
He's just bringing xexy back
Yeah well let's see how you feel being colonized for a change.
Colonized me, Daddy. 🤣
Someone click that modified "fake US" flag and pop it in a Unicode inspector to see if it produces a US or UK country code. Don't have Twitter and can't be arsed to make an account. Really curious if that part of the GUI actually types a genuine US flag or if they just re-iconed the UK flag.
Only good thing this mf did
I wish the UK was gone
monkey paw curls
It gets replaced by a second US
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Musk can't code well enough to be able to replace an emoji.
Everyone take a step back and take a deep breath. Now, do you really believe elon removed an emoji from the built-in keyboard of your smartphone?
England, Scotland and Wales are all there though. Northern Ireland... I don't think they have a national flag they all agree on.
Im 37 and studied international relations, and Im still not clear which of the following is a nation state, and which isn't:
- England
- Britain
- Great Britain
- The United Kingdom
All I know is that 'Little Britain' is a TV documentary.
Britain/Great Britain are the name(s) of the island itself. The largest of the cluster of islands there off the coast of France and The Netherlands.
The "countries" of England, Scotland and Wales are located on the island of Great Britain (and several of the smaller nearby islands). These are distinct political regions with their own governments.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the "nation" made up of the three countries of Britain plus Northern Ireland, one of two "countries" located on the island of Ireland. The United Kingdom is the highest governmental body before you hit the international community; the UK has a desk at the United Nations, for example. It's a "nation of countries" that is bound and fucking determined it's not a federation despite being built a lot like one.
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“I prefer it this way” —Elon, probably.
No Scotland & Wales either for some reason
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King George warned us about this but would we listen?
Queen Elizabeth died for this!
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There is an English, Scottish and Welsh flag at the bottom IDK if there is one for The Isle of Man, Jersey islands etc..
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Wow, I love Elon now
So, this is the stupidity going on over at Xitter eh? Stupid people would believe anything stupid as long as it fits their worldview.
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