Regional Indicator Symbol Letter A-Z emoji missing

[lolbot-iichan]

There are 26 emojis missing with codepoints U+1F1E6~U+1F1FF (🇦 ~ 🇿).

Option 1:

Some fonts are rendering them as capital letters in some kind of frame (Twitter, Facebook, JoyPixels, Emojidex, Softbank, EmojiTwo, Symbola). See:
https://www.emojiall.com/en/emoji/%F0%9F%87%B5
https://www.emojiall.com/en/emoji/3%EF%B8%8F%E2%83%A3
https://emojipedia.org/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-p/
https://emojipedia.org/keycap-digit-three/

There is already an emoji that looks exactly like this, emoji U+1F17F (🅿️) that can take place of (U+1F1F5) 🇵:
https://www.emojiall.com/en/code/1F17F
https://emojipedia.org/p-button/
Compare:
https://openmoji.org/data/color/svg/0033-FE0F-20E3.svg
https://openmoji.org/data/color/svg/1F17F.svg

My suggestion is:

1. Rename 1F17F.svg to 1F1F5.svg
2. Create 1F1E6.svg, ..., 1F1FF.svg - with colors and letter size of 1F1F5.svg and letter lines from openmoji-abc.svg
3. Create a new 1F17F.svg - with lines of 1F17F.svg and blue colors from different emoji (e.g. colors of 🈳 or 🆓).

Motivation: 🅿️ is blue in all other emoji sets, so 1F17F.svg is currently wrong anyway.

Option 2:

Some fonts are rendeding them as blue/cyan/grey/black capital letters on transparent background (Google, Samsung, Microsoft, HTC, LG, BlobMoji).

So, the other option is to leave 1F17F.svg as is, and to add new 1F1E6.svg, ..., 1F1FF.svg files with just black capital letters without a frame.

[b-g]

Hi @lolbot-iichan, yes you are right these are currently missing. thanks for the reminder! Shouldn't be hard to add these. We will look into it, but with low priority as #344 is most important. Don't expect anything too soon :)

[fuddl]

since they represent locations: how about we use the flag aspect ratio?

[lolbot-iichan]

@fuddl
Wow, that's a really interesting idea actually!

However, please note that flag emojis are composed of 2 letters (e.g. 🇲🇶 is a combination of 🇲 and 🇶).
So, if some new country appear with a flag missing at https://openmoji.org/library/#group=flags, then with your suggestion implemented into a font, this future country's flag would be rendered as 2 flag-like shapes, like there are 2 flags, not one.

I'm perfectly fine with this, just want to make sure that this is what you expect as well.

[dnlutz]

should we place the letters in squares? we could store them in the unicode block "enclosed alphanumeric supplement".
the openmoji font is monospaced and all the glyphs in it have the same width.
so we can't include flags. but the squares would be simple and pragmatic?

[fuddl]

Regional indicators are within the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block. I didn’t mean to say the regional indicators should have a different aspect ratio: Only the enclosing element should be flag shaped.

[lolbot-iichan]

should we place the letters in squares? we could store them in the unicode block "enclosed alphanumeric supplement". the openmoji font is monospaced and all the glyphs in it have the same width. so we can't include flags. but the squares would be simple and pragmatic?

Squares are indeed more simple and pragmatic, they are also more consistent with other platforms.
Flag-like shape is a nice hint that this letter was intended to be the part of a flag.
So, I would be happy with either of them.

Since @b-g mentioned that there are issues with much higher priority, maybe it would be better to use the squares for the time being and introduce the flag-like shapes later.

[b-g]

Done with 0ade38a, closing. Many thanks.