[Esras]

Echoing a similar sentiment, so supporting legacy retro video game sprites are very important to ensure are in and never change, but including flags is not okay? I re-read the justification for it recently and it still doesn't hold water, because it felt like it boiled down to "It's hard."

I was thinking about how Minecraft has a system of components and layers that let you compose various flags on their banners. Obviously that's far, far simpler than country (and autonomous region, and county, and province, and and and) flags that can include text, symbols, and practically entire images. But I did wonder if there was some way that could be represented. Unfortunately, I'm not nearly well-versed enough in code points and their ilk to propose anything useful.

But, I am torn. Archival projects are important, too, and language evolves. These decisions will live for potentially hundreds or thousands (Linear A) of years, and interoperability in computing is important.

[lifthrasiir]

Flags are in Unicode, they are just encoded like "the flag of United States" instead of "seven horizontal stripes and a specific arrangement of 50 white stars in a top-left blue background". (And the flag of US changes, although it hadn't been for many decades.)

[Esras]

I was specifically referring to this: https://blog.unicode.org/2022/03/the-past-and-future-of-flag...