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If it were determined that one or more pride flags do meet the criteria for acceptance as an emoji, the question for Unicode would become: which type of encoding would it use?

Still, he was surprised to discover that the image still has the power to provoke. When he and Deller were asked by Somerset House to produce a flag to fly above the building for its Utopia 2016 season (to mark 500 years since the publication of Thomas More’s seminal text), they inevitably landed on the image. At first, Somerset House was uneasy. “They were initially concerned due to the smiley faces’ association with acid house, rave music and recreational drugs,” he says. “But once the flag was up and people started taking pictures of it and seeing it as a positive symbol, it stayed up for two years.” These all represent people of a region or part of the world, but don't have an ISO subdivision code representing them. At present, Unicode doesn't have any mechanism to support these types of flags: In October of 1971 [1] Loufrani trademarked the name and his design in France while working as a journalist for France Soir. Competing terms were used such as smiling face and happy face before consensus was reached on the term smiley, less often spelled "smilie". [ citation needed] Given the way flags act as a rallying icon for communities of people, it's clear there will always be demand for new flag emojis.The band Nirvana created its own smiley design in 1991. [69] It was claimed that Kurt Cobain was the designer of the Nirvana smiley. Following his death, this claim was one of the reasons why it became so iconic. As recently as 2020, media reports suggested a Los Angeles–based freelance designer was in fact behind the designs. [69] Loufrani was determined to rebuild the family business. His approach was different to his father’s. Think “global lifestyle brand” as opposed to purveyor of flea market tat. He began trademarking the smiley around the world (a notable exception being the US, where the Smiley Company settled out of court following a 10-year legal battle with Walmart, which uses the logo in its promotions). Loufrani also developed digital iterations of the smiley that could be licensed out, such as graphic emoticons. He tinkered with the design, and tried out new versions with a 3D effect. Franklin wasn’t convinced. “He was shouting at me, saying, ‘Why are you changing my smiley?’ says Loufrani. “I always say: imagine you were the son of Hugh Hefner and he asked you to relaunch Playboy, and you drew Bugs Bunny. It was like that.” It has no negative connotations. It’s up there with religious iconography The very first ASCII emoticons — :- ) and :- ( — actually originated in the ’80s, when computer scientist Scott Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University suggested that the symbols be used to contextualize messages posted on a digital message board. Borschel-Dan, Amanda (19 July 2017). "History's 'oldest smile' found on 4,000-year-old pot in Turkey". The Times of Israel . Retrieved 28 July 2017. More recently, the smiley has been given additional critical bite by the United Kingdom-based graffiti artist Banksy.

a b "Wal-Mart fights to keep the smiley face:Retail giant says symbol personifies its price-reducing policy, but London-based firm says it secured rights years ago". CNN Money. 5 July 2006. In the film Forrest Gump it is implied the titular character inspired the smiley face design after wiping his face on a T-shirt while running coast to coast. By 1972, the Spain brothers had produced an estimated 50 million pin badges and a smiley logo that was slightly more refined than Ball’s hand-drawn original, with even, oval eyes and a smoother, semicircular smile. The image became inextricably associated with the zeitgeist of early-1970s America. More subdivision flags are relatively simple to support (from a technical perspective) if vendors feel any would be worthwhile additions, and aren't likely to cause unintended consequences. Flags have real-world implications, too. Unicode has listed this as being Recommended for General Interchange (RGI), meaning major vendors support or have committed to supporting this sequence.Now famous for his distortion of widely recognised brands and icons, Banksy started painting riot police and soldiers with smiley faces in 2003, a juxtaposition that, drawing on the sign’s long history, carries a message that is simultaneously comic and profoundly political. a b Adams, Cecil (23 April 1993). "Who invented the smiley face?". The Straight Dope . Retrieved 18 April 2011. Chequered Flag is the easiest of the flags. It happens to look like a flag, but isn't encoded any differently to a 📻 Radio or 🎺 Trumpet.

Smith v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. - 537 FSupp2d 1302 - March 20, 2008 - https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/14555 In 2022, the International Day of Happiness was celebrated by projecting a smiley onto a number of landmarks around the globe. In Seoul, South Korea, a smiley celebrating happiness was projected onto The Seoul Tower. [59] Ownership and alternative smileys [ edit ] The list of valid sequences for country flags is derived from ISO 3166-1 which is an internationally recognized list of countries and regions. For example: Native American tribe flags, Australian Aboriginal flag, Maori flag, Torres-Strait Islander flag.a b Honan, William H. (14 April 2001). "H. R. Ball, 79, Ad Executive Credited With happy Face". The New York Times . Retrieved 29 August 2009.

As for other (non-geographical) flags, particularly pride flags, it seems as though some of these could be a real possibility, should they be able to make the case of meeting the current Unicode emoji selection factors. Flags for countries, regions or people not grouped under an existing standard like ISO (and thus not eligible for encoding) are a difficult case. Whether, perhaps, a national standards body could add an ISO code for Australian Aboriginal or Torrest-Strait Islander people is something that might be considered by people in these communities. Over time, the icon mutated into a signifier of various subcultures, personal freedoms, anti-capitalist attitudes, drugs, and electronic music. Due to the way these codes were implemented, sets of three or more Regional Indicator characters aren't feasible, as text rendering engines will match any two with an emoji first (eg if XSD were used for South Dakota, text engines would render the XS as a Scottish flag first, and be left with the D hanging at the end) Ivanauskas, Giedrius (16 January 2012). "Boxpark Shoreditch: Interview with Nicolas Loufrani CEO of Smiley | Made in Shoreditch - A Magazine About Style, Innovation, Dining, Nightlife and People in Shoreditch". Made in Shoreditch. Archived from the original on 7 March 2013 . Retrieved 14 March 2013.

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In the late-1980s, the smiley again became a prominent image within the music industry. It was adopted during the growth of acid house across Europe and the UK in the late 1980s. According to many, this began when DJ, Danny Rampling, used the smiley to celebrate Paul Oakenfold's birthday. [44] This sparked a movement where the smiley moved into various dance genres, becoming a symbol of 1980s dance music. [45]