GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 790650
A recent patch in pango breaks the flag sequences for Scotland, England, and Wales
Last modified: 2017-11-21 21:10:17 UTC
This patch breaks the flag sequences for Scotland, England, and Wales: commit fe0669798d617406b52a638fb2525b1f7527a2d6 Author: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org> Date: Mon Jul 31 23:03:30 2017 +0100 Choose emoji font for color emoji Fixes https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785566 I didn’t yet try to check why, but when reverting that patch the flag sequences for Scotland, England, and Wales render correctly using the "Noto Color Emoji" font, but with that patch pango breaks after U+1F3F4 WAVING BLACK FLAG which starts the sequences for these flags.
These 3 flags are special, they are in the subdivision-flag group: U+1F3F4 U+E0067 U+E0062 U+E0065 U+E006E U+E0067 U+E007F England U+1F3F4 U+E0067 U+E0062 U+E0073 U+E0063 U+E0074 U+E007F Scotland U+1F3F4 U+E0067 U+E0062 U+E0077 U+E006C U+E0073 U+E007F Wales
the sequences don't seem to work in web browsers either here, though
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 789978 ***