San Jose officials push for South Vietnam flag emoji - San José Spotlight

San Jose officials push for South Vietnam flag emoji - San José Spotlight

As emojis become a widespread form of global messaging, San Jose leaders are calling on the world’s leading text encoders to add a symbol for the Flag of South Vietnam. The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to urge the Unicode Consortium — the Mountain View-based organization overseeing the digitized use of text in all of the world’s writing systems — to adopt the flag of a fallen government with historical and political significance to ref…