Sadly, no.
It has been introduced with yakkety.
And it is available in zesty, too.
So I guess, that it’s now part of the repositories (for new releases).
Sadly, no.
It has been introduced with yakkety.
And it is available in zesty, too.
So I guess, that it’s now part of the repositories (for new releases).
Alright, we gathered a lot of info in the wiki above. You can still add your findings there, but now it’s time for a new wiki:
##How to see the flags:
####On FP1
####On FP2
#### Here is how it works on all computers:
####On Linux
####On Mac
####On Windows
Well that’s just a panel from where you can copy-paste the emojis. It doesn’t install the emojis to your system.
I thought it would detect the regional indicator symbols and replace them with the flags. The keyboard namely includes them.
I found the solution and added it above.
PS:
Does it work for everyone now, can we proceed?
0 voters
I’m going for at least 20 votes and a 60%+ popular vote.
We need a few more votes please.
Oh and maybe @mal, @explit, @wouterx and @NeoTheThird can give some insight on whether this works on FP2 with #software:alternative-oses.
This won’t be possible on my office laptop, since I don’t have administrator rights
Well who has them then?
Of course, I can file a demand via the special website our ICT department created to report ICT problems (like “my internet doesn’t work, so I can’t access your website”) and wait a few weeks for a response…
But for some reason, I think I can live with not seeing any flags if this solution is the only one that would work
I think for the sake of the widest possible accessibility, the solution should be one that requires the least action on the forum users’ part. Perhaps that means leaving the status quo unchanged.
I hope in the future flag-tags will be officially supported by Discourse, so we could wait for that.
Or we could be pioneers and show them how cool this feature is, present a working forum that uses them instead of just drawing mockups and thereby hopefully speed up Discourse’s integration of that function.
On Sailfish OS the symbols don’t work out of the box in the default Jolla Browser but after installing emojione-color-font package from the unofficial repos (OpenRepos.net/Warehouse) the symbols are shown correctly. A lot of people use the Warehouse app to install packages from the unofficial repos at OpenRepos.net so it’s probably not a big issue.
I tried on Palemoon (Win 7 64 bit) and after installing the Emojii color font I see some letters.
I can’t vote (maybe the poll is closed?).
Bye!
I’m sure there’s a few other options like embedding fonts in CSS or a little javascript regexp-like routine to replace occurrences of these UTF character combinations to HTML images…
I agree that the cleanest solution is for every user to install this font, but that’s also quite a thing to ask from a user who is rightfully distrusting of any website telling you to install stuff on their computer. Are you sure there’s no other viable solution than having the user install a font on every machine (thereby breaking backwards compatibility)?
Well there is a discussion on meta.discourse on how to implement this without effort of the forum-user:
Maybe you could log in there and get the discussion going.
I agree we shouldn’t ask users to install something on their devices to enjoy basic functions of the forum, but:
🇩 🇪, 🇫 🇷, 🇳 🇱, 🇮 🇹, 🇪 🇸
, … ).So I don’t think users would feel pressured to install a font. If they don’t see the tags as flags by default, some will install the font because they like the idea of seeing the flags, others won’t, because they don’t care - or because they’d rather wait for flag-tags to become a core function of discourse.
We could - as an interim solution - use the tags and keep the flags in the topic title for a while. Then everybody can still see the flags.
We could do it like that until everybody gets tired of the duplicate flags in their list of topics:
Sorry @paulakreuzer, i currently have to rely on FP Open OS, so sadly, I don’t have time for distro-hopping on my daily driver phone My guess is that it won’t work, the Ubuntu Webbrowser App on the desktop does not show the flags, but i’m not sure about the phone version.
I think we should still migrate to Unicode chars, just because it’s awesome. Unicode is the future, so support is only going to get better.
I decided to go with that for now.
Here is the new discussion about flag-tags: