As emojis become a widespread form of global messaging, San Jose leaders are calling on the world’s leading text encoders to ...

"It started out with a mistake," explained Doan. "One of my vendors punched up Vietnam and an emoji popped up with the red flag and the yellow star, and the community got a little upset about that.

The letters forming the indicator are then encoded to create the Unicode for any flag emoji. While the United States is represented by US, the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands are represented by UM ...

Cao said what was once the symbol of a nation has now become a flag of "heritage." "For overseas Vietnamese, the emoji will provide a symbol of our identity and connection to the homeland," Cao said.

“As a mama bear this makes my heart a little lighter,” someone said, including the trans pride flag emoji in the comment to indicate their child is trans. “It’s scary out there, and all I ...