Basque, Catalonian and Galician flag emojis

[Crissov]

The Basque region is mostly located in the Eastern part of Northern Spain, but stretches to France. The ISO 3166-2 code for the autonomous community is ES-PV from Spanish País Vasco, which is Euskal Herria in the Basque language. Several provinces are part of either this region or of ES-NC Comunidad Foral de Navarra/Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea: ES-VI Álava/Araba, ES-BI Bizkaia, ES-SS Gipuzkoa and ES-NA Navarra/Nafarroa. The Basque flag is known as Ikurriña.

Similarly, Catalonia is almost completely part of Eastern Spain. Its code is ES-CT from Catalunya or Cataluña. The autonomous communities of the Balears Islands and Valencia have separate codes, ES-IB and ES-VC. Several provinces are part of these three: ES-A Alacant, ES-PM Balears/Baleares, ES-CS Castelló, ES-GI Girona/Gerona, ES-L Lleida/Lérida, ES-T Tarragona/Tarragona and ES-V València. The Catalonian flag is known as Senyera.

In the North-Western panhandle of Spain, Galicia is the third large autonomous region with, albeit lesser, tendencies to strive for independence (or closer association with Portugal). Its code is ES-GA and it contains several provinces: ES-C A Coruña/La Coruña, ES-LU Lugo, ES-OR Ourense/Orense, ES-PO Pontevedra.

Implementation

UTS51 now supports emoji flags for administrative regions on the sub-national level. Unicode Emoji 5.0 only documents the English, Scottish and Welsh flags as recommended to implement. Vendors are likely to support more, starting in mid-2017. Anyhow, a formal proposal to add these flags might speed up the process and make it more official.

The respective ISO codes translate to these Emoji Tag Sequences:

• ES-PV: U+1F3F4+E0065+E0073+E0070+E0076+E007F 🏴󠁥󠁳󠁰󠁶󠁿
• ES-CT: U+1F3F4+E0065+E0073+E0063+E0074+E007F 🏴󠁥󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
• ES-GA: U+1F3F4+E0065+E0073+E0067+E0061+E007F 🏴󠁥󠁳󠁧󠁡󠁿

Specific References

• ISO 3166-2:ES

Standard References

• Unicode Technical Standard 51 “Unicode Emoji” (beta)
• How to propose emojis to Unicode
• Unicode document submission form

[Crissov]

BabelStone Flags supports the Basque and Catalan flags.

Mockups

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[McOmghall]

The only official names are A Coruña and Ourense, the other are non official names imposed by Spanish nationalism and best be avoided.

[kbatchelli]

catalonia is northeastern spain

[kbatchelli]

catalan independence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Català Independencia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[uninhm]

Why is this closed? AFAIK the flags are not part of the Unicode standard yet

[Crissov]

@uninhm Unicode won’t process proposals for flag emojis anymore. I have therefore closed all flag issues. If UTC ever changes their position, I will reopen them.

[koddsson]

@uninhm Unicode won’t process proposals for flag emojis anymore. I have therefore closed all flag issues. If UTC ever changes their position, I will reopen them.

@Crissov; is there a reference for that somewhere? Thank you <3

[Crissov]

https://home.unicode.org/the-past-and-future-of-flag-emoji/

[chrispaton]

Looks like the link above is 404'ing. For anyone else curious, it looks from a quick Google that the same article is available at https://blog.unicode.org/2022/03/the-past-and-future-of-flag-emoji.html.