While we’re talking about Austria, if we’re going to a subnational level, check out the Austrian state flags. Over half of them are just a red-and-white horizontal stripe:
Hmm. That’s a good thought. IIRC fontconfig on Linux can merge different fonts with different priorities, so I think that someone could make a “flag override” font that has extra-wide emojis and has both the ISO code and the flag, even without changing the original font.
Also
🇧🇻 🇳🇴 🇸🇯
“These are all the flag of Norway” you might say, and that is correct. But one is for Bouvet Island, one is for Norway, and one is for Svalbard and Jan Mayen (in that order, here). Norway’s national day as recently and it is fun every year to see so many people celebrating Bouvet Island (it shows up first in alphabetical lists).
🇮🇩 🇲🇨
🇸🇳 🇲🇱
🇳🇿 🇦🇺
🇻🇪 🇪🇨 🇨🇴
🇸🇮 🇸🇰 🇷🇺
🇱🇺 🇳🇱 🇭🇷 🇵🇾
🇱🇷 🇺🇸 🇲🇾
🇲🇽 🇮🇹
🇷🇴 🇹🇩
🇧🇭 🇶🇦
🇱🇮 🇭🇹
🇮🇳 🇳🇪
🇧🇴 🇬🇭
🇭🇺 🇹🇯
🇦🇷 🇳🇮 🇸🇻 🇭🇳
🇪🇬 🇮🇶 🇾🇪 🇸🇩 🇸🇾
The whole flag situation isn’t really ideal.
I always get India and Ireland confused.
🇱🇹🇲🇲 Myanmar why did you steal our flag and de saturate it?
I have another one for you: 🇦🇹 🇱🇻 On TV I often have to take a second look myself.
I zoomed lol
While we’re talking about Austria, if we’re going to a subnational level, check out the Austrian state flags. Over half of them are just a red-and-white horizontal stripe:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_and_coats_of_arms_of_the_Austrian_states
Salsburg, Austria:
Tyrol, Austria:
Upper Austria, Austria:
Vienna, Austria:
Voralberg, Austria:
Not to mention the state of Hesse in Germany:
And then Poland:
Monaco:
and Indonesia:
My takeaway here is that vexillologists really like Pokeballs and/or Voltorb.
I don’t understand, I just see a bunch of red lines. Where is the white?
they look fine to me :P
Are you running something special?
It would be interesting to display the flag followed by the country code in a parenthetical.
windows 10.
its the same on linux, because I’m running a half broken arch install.
Hmm. That’s a good thought. IIRC fontconfig on Linux can merge different fonts with different priorities, so I think that someone could make a “flag override” font that has extra-wide emojis and has both the ISO code and the flag, even without changing the original font.
That’s awesome!
That doesn’t really solve the problem either. After all which country is IQ?
Einstan
Good thing the codes are an international standard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#IQ.
I get what you are saying, but how many country names start with I and has a Q in the name? I might be wrong I think it is only Iraq?
Don’t forget 🇮🇪 🇨🇮
And, if it’s been out in the sun for a while, 🇮🇹 can start to look like 🇮🇪
Also 🇧🇻 🇳🇴 🇸🇯 “These are all the flag of Norway” you might say, and that is correct. But one is for Bouvet Island, one is for Norway, and one is for Svalbard and Jan Mayen (in that order, here). Norway’s national day as recently and it is fun every year to see so many people celebrating Bouvet Island (it shows up first in alphabetical lists).
If Bouvet Island ever changes their flag and all the fonts update to reflect that, there is going to be a lot of suddenly-confusing text out there!
🇧🇪🇩🇪
Jamaica’s flag is pretty unique… Let’s all copy theirs…
Only country flag without red, blue and white!
The problem is no one has any imagination.
Put a dragon setting fire to a castle on your flag or something, don’t just have three stripes.
Well we can do you the dragon at least: 🏴
Yes but that’s not the official flag which rather my point. They would rather have a giant and pointless arguement than an identity.
When you are among the first: 🇸🇪 (first but we’re at bro-war with them: 🇩🇰)
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