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A 1.4MB binary size cost is massive. I'm a chrome developer and our threshold for what you need to explain the cost/benefit of is 16KB. To me this just isn't worth the cost.
Fwiw just the country flags are 77kb if you use the Twemoji ones like Firefox does. Fancy shiny ones area bit bigger I suspect.
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> You'd also be essentially legitimising the right of conquest Documenting reality doesn't endorse what happened. Istanbul was Constantinople. Shit happens. If I'm travelling, I'd much rather the flags and borders reflect the situation on the ground instead of making meaningless humanitarian gestures.
It's the opposite of meaningless. Delegitimising wars of conquest massively reduced them and was a big part of why the 20th century was so much more peaceful on the whole (yes, even with the giant wars that did take place) than those before it.
> Out of desperation I asked ChatGPT. It was useless as usual. This is so real.
I hold the belief that if you ask it something that nobody has documented before it just won't do it. This also and particularly applies to code. Ask about Fibonacci? Great. Ask about something tricky? Let's make up some APIs
Microsoft should adjust the flag font according to the language used, such as Simplified Chinese and Hebrew versions. However, Microsoft is not a company that respects the culture and language of each country. It has a bad habit of forcing what it decides in Redmond all over the world.
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What does "actually in control" mean? When the IRA set up a checkpoint in Rosslea, should that have moved the border on the map? When there are disputes over uninhabited islands, do you want it to show whoever visited first? Obviously these are small examples, but the same issues apply to full-scale civil wars. You'd also be essentially legitimising the right of conquest if as soon as country A invades country B you…
> You'd also be essentially legitimising the right of conquest Documenting reality doesn't endorse what happened. Istanbul was Constantinople. Shit happens. If I'm travelling, I'd much rather the flags and borders reflect the situation on the ground instead of making meaningless humanitarian gestures.
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Fwiw just the country flags are 77kb if you use the Twemoji ones like Firefox does. Fancy shiny ones area bit bigger I suspect.
Interesting. That's a lot more plausible. Reopened the bug.
Sidenote, I'm the maintainer of the polyfill for this and its little script that extracts just the country flags from Mozilla's Twemoji font [0]. I'm not an expert by any stretch, but if it's in any way helpful that I chime into that Chromium bug then let me know. I'd love to deprecate the polyfill.
[0] https://github.com/talkjs/country-flag-emoji-polyfill/blob/m...
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Hmm I'm a bit confused by your question. Emojis are a Unicode range, and the only way Unicode is displayed on a monitor is through -- a font. So just like with text, if a website doesn't load it's own font, the OS-level fonts are used. I'm not sure what the alternative would be.
Sorry, I now see my question was poorly worded. I was ranting about OS vendors not updating emoji fonts on supported versions -- you have to upgrade to the latest major version to get new emojis. I ran into this issue twice when using an older, and supported, version of both macOS and Android.
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They just need the flag glyphs, not everything else.
Those flag glyphs still have to be harmonized with other emoji glyphs anyway, so including all of them is the safest approach.
> Out of desperation I asked ChatGPT. It was useless as usual. This is so real.
I hold the belief that if you ask it something that nobody has documented before it just won't do it. This also and particularly applies to code. Ask about Fibonacci? Great. Ask about something tricky? Let's make up some APIs