If you're looking to jazz up your latest text with an American flag emoji, you're likely to face a dilemma: two apparently identical choices. What's the reason?

WeChat apologizes for showering Chinese users with American flag emoji. by James Vincent. Source South China Morning Post and WeChat (Weibo) | Via Wall Street Journal. Jan 19, 2015, 1:47 PM UTC ...

Well, Carlyle said he and several of his friends have already submitted a proposal to Unicode, which creates the design standard for emoji, to add a pride flag, but hasn’t heard a response.

As Zach Seward writes at sister publication Quartz, Apple’s emoji font only supports 10 flags: Japan, South Korea, Germany, China, United States, France, Spain, Italy, Russia, and Great Britain.

Transgender community advocates pushed for the trans flag emoji for years. Earlier in 2020, the Unicode Consortium finally approved it.

Emoji designs and ideas can be pitched to Unicode by anyone, but ultimately the consortium has the final say. Since 2016, the Transgender Pride Flag (blue, white, and pink) was the most requested ...

Last year, I wrote about how emoji-coder Unicode added 230 emoji, such as a banjo and kite, but neglected to include the trans pride flag.That was rectified this year: A trans flag emoji has now ...