Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 17:35:48 +0000
That same glyph turns up as this, for me:
http://i.imgur.com/3XQ96SA.png
Which is part of the problem. "Rainbow" could mean anything. That the Apple
version happens to look a bit like a flag (a weird square flag that looks
almost nothing like the queer pride flag) is largely immaterial.
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 at 17:47 Richard Cook <rscook_at_wenlin.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 30, 2015, at 9:11 AM, Garth Wallace <gwalla_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> I don't think display of U+1F308 as a rainbow flag would be expected
> behavior. It risks turning a text like "It's a beautiful day! [image: 🌈]"
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> Garth,
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> Any statement can be a political statement, in the right context. But I
> think the main point of my earlier comment was that the specific glyph for U+1F308
> might be indistinguishable from a flag. For example, this is the glyph in
> iOS 8:
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> [image: image1.PNG]
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> Not a cloud in the sky.
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