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Change the Antartica flag emoji#11

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Change the Antartica flag emoji#11
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@leap0x7b leap0x7b commented Mar 28, 2023

Use the "True South" Antartica flag instead of Graham Bartram's flag. The "True South" flag has been regarded as the "official" flag of Antartica by many national Antarctic programs and non-profits. Don't know why emoji makers don't change it to this flag though.

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Xstoudi commented Mar 28, 2023

I think the True South flag would be better than the Graham Bartram, but as described in the flag spec there should be an inside margin on the bottom side, as there is one on the top side.

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Yeah it's actually an error in my part, fixing that later.

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12Me21 commented Mar 30, 2023

(for anyone wondering: this is getting attention because of a youtube video by CGP Gray)

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The "True South" flag has indeed been used more widely in Antarctica than Graham's flag, which has dubious copyright due to it being originally intended for a game. Approve.

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leap0x7b commented Apr 4, 2023

who tf disliked this

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jdecked commented Apr 5, 2023

Thanks for your submission! We're not going to merge this right now because we'd be an outlier with all other major emoji sets. Having reasonable amounts of design parity across emoji sets helps avoid misunderstandings when users are using emoji to communicate. If/when major keyboard vendors plan to change their representation of the flag of Antarctica, we'd be willing to revisit this.

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