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Interestingly, on my phone the so-called flag is not a flag at all, but "US" in outline.

So python behaves as expected: the 2 character string, when reversed, becomes "SU". Similar stuff happens with the other "flag" strings.

I'm sure emojis in my phone are outdated. I'm not sure how that affects whether I see a flag or letters.



Thankfully, there isn't an assigned ISO 3166-1 2-letter country code for SU currently; people may have interesting reactions seeing what happens when reversing a US flag emoji if there were.


If this was 1990 (and we somehow had the current emoji standard) SU would be the USSR flag.


Out of interest, what phone and browser? The only platform I've seen that doesn't render the flags is Windows.


An android phone from 2014, with a year out of date chrome.

To update chrome, I'd have to give it permission to access my contacts. That ain't happening. (Phone OS is too old for per-app permissions)




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