Emoji flag for Metropolitan France is broken
bhousel opened this issue · comments
This works for most flags, but Metropolitan France uses the code fx which doesn't have a flag. Maybe it should just hardcode fr here?
I'm not sure if there are any other countries like this. Metropolitan France is kind of weird.
Hmm I'm not sure if we should hardcode this or not. Emoji flags are defined by two codepoints that correspond directly to the two-letter ISO codes, so returning a different emoji changes the identity.
FX is one of several unofficial yet "exceptionally reserved" codes we support in country-coder. Interestingly, the other ones have defined emojis. Some have their own symbol, like 🇮🇨 for IC, while others use the same rendering as the higher-level region, like 🇨🇵 for CP. You'd think FX would work similarly, but apparently not. It's the only ISO code I can see in country-coder without a corresponding emoji flag.
With this in mind, I'm thinking country-coder's behavior is technically correct and it's up to the ISO or Unicode Consortium to figure it out. But I'm also not against hardcoding if this is causing problems.
Interesting! I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Indicator_Symbol
It looks like a handful of these have been officially deprecated within CLDR, and FX is in that list. (I don't think any of the other deprecations are things I would even try to use).
I agree that country-coder's behavior is technically correct, so I'll close this and adjust the flag in the Location Conflation viewer.
@bhousel Sounds good. Countries and text encoding are both so complicated separately, it's a wonder there aren't more issues when they collide.