Should there be a character to represent flags, emoticons and gay rights?

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

This is perhaps the best article I’ve ever read about Unicode.

In the carrier Emoji symbols, 10 countries had representations of their national flags encoded. Quickly, other countries – Canada, Ireland – began complaining that they too should get a character for their flag. Should every country get a flag in Unicode? Was it the Unicode Consortium’s job to decide what was an wasn’t a country? Should Taiwan get a flag?

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    http://www.reigndesign.com/blog/love-hotels-and-unicode/
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