{"id":47598,"date":"2020-01-06T03:01:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T17:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=47598"},"modified":"2020-01-05T15:57:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T05:57:53","slug":"regional-flag-emojis-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/regional-flag-emojis-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Flag Emojis Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/regional_flags.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Regional Flag Emojis Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/regional_flags.jpg\" title=\"Regional Flag Emojis Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\"   \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regional Flag Emojis Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Following up on recent &#8220;country flag emoji&#8221; thoughts we had with the recent <a target=_blank title='Window SessionStorage Client Versus Server Flags Tutorial' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/window-sessionstorage-client-versus-server-flags-tutorial\/'>Window SessionStorage Client Versus Server Flags Tutorial<\/a> we wanted to research where the emoji developments are at with support for Regional Flags.  It is very piecemeal at this stage, and for a couple of years now it seems only Great Britain (GB) &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>England<\/li>\n<li>Scotland<\/li>\n<li>Wales<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; regional emoji flag definitions are &#8220;accepted&#8221;.  By &#8220;accepted&#8221; we don&#8217;t mean that we don&#8217;t know how to define the HTML (Entities) needed to define them if they eventually appear, it is more that the vetting of a new such Regional Flag has not happened yet.  In researching this, some discussions go back to 2017, so we guess there is no real hurry about this.  You can read a bit at <a target=_blank href='https:\/\/blog.emojipedia.org\/emoji-flags-explained\/' title='Emoji Flags Explained'>Emoji Flags Explained<\/a> and <a target=_blank title='Regional Flag Support For Unicode in 2017' href='https:\/\/blog.emojipedia.org\/regional-flag-support-for-unicode-in-2017\/'>Regional Flag Support For Unicode in 2017<\/a>, thanks.<\/p>\n<p>To then test some of this for yourself, because it is platform dependent, you can try our <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/regional_flags.html_GETME\" title=\"regional_flags.html\">regional_flags.html<\/a>&#8216;s <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/regional_flags.html\">proof of concept web application<\/a> &#8230; or &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:100%;height:800px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/regional_flags.html\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--p>You can also see this play out at WordPress 4.1.1's <a target=_blank title='Regional Flag Emojis Primer Tutorial' href=';https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/regional-flag-emojis-primer-tutorial\/'>Regional Flag Emojis Primer Tutorial<\/a>.<\/p-->\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d47598' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d47598\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/emoji\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d47598' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on recent &#8220;country flag emoji&#8221; thoughts we had with the recent Window SessionStorage Client Versus Server Flags Tutorial we wanted to research where the emoji developments are at with support for Regional Flags. It is very piecemeal at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/regional-flag-emojis-primer-tutorial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,37],"tags":[2247,385,2242,576,2658,2395,652,1620,1319,1333],"class_list":["post-47598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning","category-tutorials","tag-country-code","tag-emoji","tag-flag","tag-html","tag-html-entity","tag-iso","tag-javascript","tag-region","tag-tutorial","tag-unicode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47598"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47603,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47598\/revisions\/47603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}