How were these 268 determined to be more eligible than any other flags?Ībove: Only 10 country flags were on iPhone in 2008. With calls in recent years for emoji representation of the Aboriginal Australian flag, Transgender flag, Brittany flag, Kurdish flag (and many more) it's worth taking a closer look at the ways that flags can be added to the Unicode Standard, and how that impacts the set of flags available today.Īfter all, Apple's iPhone only included 10 country flag emojis in 2008, and now there are 268.
As with most things Unicode-related, emoji flags are more complicated than they may first appear.
