“The Unicode Consortium isn’t in the business of determining what is a country and what isn’t,” Unicode Emoji subcommittee chair Jennifer Daniel wrote in a blog post about the decision. That would more than double the emoji keyboard, which currently holds 3,633 emoji, but picking and choosing who gets a flag and who doesn’t is politically fraught. They’re also some of the least frequently used, and the Unicode Consortium, which approves new emoji, said it won’t accept any more new flag proposals.Īdding flags for every state, province, and other political subdivision would be a monumental task, because there are at least 3,681 subdivisions around the world as of 2017. Today there are 258 flag emoji, the largest category, accounting for about 7% of all emoji. Sorry to everyone who wants state flag emoji, it’s not going to happen.
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