Country flag emojis are just 2 letter abbreviations of country names. Much better if they were proper country flags.

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Country flag emojis are just 2 letter abbreviations of country names. Much better if they were proper country flags. #9505

Open selivan opened 7 months ago

selivan commented 7 months ago

Operating system

Windows

Joplin version

2.13.9

Desktop version info

Joplin 2.13.9 (prod, win32)

Client ID: 3c3b2cb8e2194f7791b36b2260e2fae2 Sync Version: 3 Profile Version: 44 Keychain Supported: Yes

Revision: 1bbec44

Conflict Resolution: 1.2.3 Copy Code Blocks: 1.1.0 Note list and sidebar toggle buttons: 1.0.3

Current behaviour

Emoji flags inserted into notes also turn into 2-letter abbreviations.

Expected behaviour

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personalizedrefrigerator commented 7 months ago

Note that they do show up as flag emojis on Ubuntu 23.10:

selivan commented 7 months ago

@personalizedrefrigerator If that is the case, I suppose Joplin should have an option to choose emoji font: system or some built-in options.

It sucks that Windows still does not include proper emoji set by default, but it is not a good reason to look at ugly letter flags.

Besides, Android app displays proper flag emojis, so user gets different experience on different platforms.

For example, Telegram client, from which I copied picture with proper flag emojis, offer these options:

laurent22 commented 7 months ago

There's always the option to use an actual image - there are open source libraries of flag icons you could use, and then you're sure it would render the same on all platforms.

selivan commented 7 months ago

@laurent22 That is a workaround for notebook icons. But that will not work for emojis inside notes.

laurent22 commented 7 months ago

Right, that's only for the notebooks. I guess we could bundle our own emoji lib like WhatsApp does but I'm not sure there's enough demand for it. Perhaps something to investigate

selivan commented 7 months ago

Besides messengers, like Whatsup and Telegram, Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows also include custom emoji, because bundled with system suck. It could be worth looking into, improves user experience.