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Proposals for new characters to encode and canonic character sequences to register
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💙‍☸️‍💚 Romani Flag emoji #274

Closed Crissov closed 2 years ago

Crissov commented 7 years ago

There are several stateless “nations”. Some peoples do not have a country (and therefore flag emoji) because any area inhabited primarily by them is part of another country or divided among several countries (e.g. Kurdish #117 and Sami #205), but the Roma are spread in a diaspora across many countries without any larger region having them in a majority. Also, traditionally, many of them have been moving around a lot. Their Romani Flag, also known as “Gypsy Flag”, shows a blue and a green horizontal bar with either a stylized red wheel (💙‍💚‍☸️ / 💙‍☸️‍💚 as on the Indian flag 🇮🇳) or a horse head (💙‍💚‍🐴 / 💙‍🐴‍💚) on top.

Western Romani flag with _chakra_ wheel

There is no applicable code in any part of ISO 3166, but ISO 639 language codes include ROM for the Romany language.

Crissov commented 7 years ago

Mockups

Emojitwo: Romani flag

nasko86 commented 5 years ago

Hello @Crissov and all, I am trying to find the Roma flag emoji and all I find is this post. Trying to copy/paste it and place it on a facebook status but does not really function. Am I doing something wrong?> Please help me to find the Romani flag emoji/emoticon Thank you :) Atanas

Crissov commented 5 years ago

The last paragraph in the initial comment means that there is currently no Romani Flag emoji and there currently also is no agreed-upon possibility to encode it at all. Work-arounds are custom sequences like 💙‍☸️‍💚 and, well, images where available. I'm more verbose in other flag-related issues.

nasko86 commented 5 years ago

Thank you for the quick reply @Crissov! I am working for Roma civil society for 15 years now, as I understand there is "no-agreed-upon possibility to encode it all" Who decides on this? Is there an entity we need to agree with, petition, e-mail? I will be happy if you provide me with little info around the procedure. Thank you! Atanas

Crissov commented 5 years ago

This repository is about possible future proposals to Unicode, mostly emojis. They are aware of the general issue, but have yet to come up with a solution.

https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#Flags

Emojipedia blog article

Crissov commented 3 years ago