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The pride flags seem like pretty clear and stable designs

Most of those other differences, especially like the ones Twitter has been doing lately, are differences between the platforms
https://blog.emojipedia.org/x-expected-to-update-its-iranian-flag-emoji-design/

Unicode isn’t in control of that and it’s often a mess

Reading one of these articles, I guess Microsoft doesn’t have flags on their platform at all? Maybe only in Word? I didn’t know that

X Updates Its Iranian Flag Emoji Design

Earlier today, X (fka Twitter) updated its design for the 🇮🇷 Flag for Iran emoji within the official Twemoji GitHub. Proposing a historic design for the flag not previously used across emoji keyboards, this change would be the X's first emoji update since its 2024 revisions of the 🔫 Pistol emoji.

Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News

@alice @catsalad @Tattooed_Mummy @emojipedia @katemorley
I wasn’t involved in the emoji until I did my proposal for the 🪗 in 2019

So I wasn’t around when the two pride flags got proposed and approved

And haven’t seen the fallout from the controversy around trying to get the other flags in

I can imagine the frustration