• @yetAnotherUser@feddit.de
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    9 months ago
    1. 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.

    2. 🇺🇸 (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.

      • @yetAnotherUser@feddit.de
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        49 months ago

        True, I realized this after posting. After quickly looking it up, it turns out they were added a few years later and differ slightly from the rest of the flags. According to the probably correct source of Emojipedia, you can see the difference here:

        https://emojipedia.org/flag-england https://emojipedia.org/flag-united-kingdom

        Tl;dr
        🇬🇧 = ‘GB’
        🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 = ‘🏴gbeng[cancel symbol]’
        🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 = ‘🏴gbsct[cancel symbol]’
        🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 = ‘🏴gbwls[cancel symbol]’

        With the lower case letters representing “Tag Latin Small Letter X” and the upper case letters representing “Regional Indicator Symbol Letter X”

        • Flax
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          18 months ago

          Provisions for a Northern Ireland one also exists but sadly no manufacturer adopts it because of the flag controversy. It’s GBNIR. You can actually go to the root of Google’s emoji source code and enable it and build the font which will include the Northern Ireland flag!

          1000011904

      • Flax
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        18 months ago

        Probably because they have six characters instead of two. GB-SCT for example is the scottish flag

  • Annoyed_🦀 🏅
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    79 months ago

    Dude just have to scroll up a bit to find UK flag. But yes it’s odd to have two US flag on Swift Key 🤔