Unicode referred The National to a blog post from 2022 titled The Past and Present of the Flag Emoji, in which the consortium announced that it would no longer be accepting flag emoji submissions.

To some, it may seem trivial to care about the deeper meaning of emoji. The popular cartoonish icons are often used as nothing more than a lighthearted addition to a text or online message. "I think ...

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.