Removal of "imaginary" country flags from the Unicode emojis (Kosovo)

[Ян Буши Стрелок]

Please remove this non-sense, Kosovo isn’t recognised by United Nations, it doesn’t have it’s own country domain associated with it, because it’s considered de-facto part of Serbian territory, because that’s reality.

Immediate removal from the Unicode standards would be best for all, this isn’t some rainbow-flag-parade non-sense, where everyone can paint its own flags there… 

Yes, Biden+Obama liberals maybe want that, but this ain’t politics. When you have permission from United Nations and they recognise them (and that won’t happen) you do that.

Otherwise, we want total dismissal of the Unicode staff- current staff, and we’ll find our own new staff that’s non-aligned politically and does just to the world.

💋

[Ян Буши Стрелок]

For further information/permission/etc- milicija.org 

Not Berlinburgs infidels and liberals. Otherwise...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=333OVHhpK5c

Fucking nerds

[Markus Scherer]

1. This is off-topic for a mailing list for the Unicode ICU project.

2. Any participation in Unicode activities, including emails on its lists, needs to adhere to the Unicode Consortium Code of Conduct.

3. Unicode is apolitical.

4. There is no Kosovo flag emoji in Unicode. There is a sequence of characters which could be interpreted as requesting display related to Kosovo, but that's a bit like spelling "Kosovo" using the letters 'K', 'o', 's', and 'v', and Unicode does not list nor recommend that sequence.

Best regards,

markus

[zxuiji]

You realise there ARE use cases for flags to be in unicode even if the "country" in question is not recognised as a country right? For example, how would you say "X territory declared itself independent in year YYYY and is now using the flag Z to represent itself" in pure text, like say a phone text message? Unicode is designed to incorporate real world text characters into it's standard, not be "politically correct". As such unicode does not need to care wether a territory is recognised as a country or not, and I suggest you start trying to disassociate technical progress from political agendas as not doing so only hurts your mental health.

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[zxuiji]

Just noticed the timestamp, whoopsie for reviving the thread, also it seems I didn't get to see markus's response until after I sent my own response :|

[Mark Davis Ⓤ]

This is out of scope for ICU.

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