![]() ( A different international standard dictates which symbols become which flags.) As Zach Seward writes at sister publication Quartz, Apple’s emoji font only supports 10 flags: Japan, South Korea, Germany, China, United States, France, Spain, Italy, Russia, and Great Britain. ![]() (You see a flag your phone sees those two symbols.)Įmoji fonts-which are not the same thing as Unicode’s emoji specifications-know to contract these two-symbol codes into flags. When you type an emoji American flag, for example, you’re in fact entering two regional indicator symbols: U and S. Instead, as Scott explains, there are 26 regional indicator symbols. There aren’t, in fact, any emoji flags in Unicode, the enormous international standard that tells computing devices of all forms how to convert bits into readable text.
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