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Re:Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong by adt2bt on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:23PM (#21184252)
There is no truly neutral position though. Who gets the final say then?
Re:Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong by loeg on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:36PM (#21184390)
Have you seen unicode? They usually err on the side of including everything, including, e.g., alphabets of fictional languages.
Re:Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong by organsnyder on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:42PM (#21184468)
Those fictional languages' mere existence isn't perceived as a threat by any government, though.
Re:Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong by CodesInChaos on Monday October 07, 2019 @05:36PM (#21186210)
Whoever renders the text. Since most applications delegate to the OS for that, it's typically the OS. The OS generally follows whatever the jurisdiction it's sold in requires. In theory an application could override it by doing custom rendering of these codepoints.

The unicode standard doesn't care, as explained above, since it just defines an alphabet and takes no position in which country/locale codes are to be rendered with a flag.