Unicode flags no longer display on SL Forum website
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Rick Nightingale
Paste any unicode flag into anywhere on the Forum website; in the search bar, a post, user profile... and instead of the flag graphic, the alphabetic code is shown. It used to display the graphic flags until recently.
For instance, paste this: "🇬🇧"
That should show a graphic British flag; it does here, but on the SL forum website on Firefox it shows the letters GB instead.
While partly a Windows/Browser issue, the flags work on any other website in Firefox. Just not SL's forum. Note that the flags also seem to work on the Marketplace website.
Clearly something changed recently to stop them working; please make them work again.
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Spidey Linden
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We believe this should be fixed now.
Rick Nightingale
Spidey Linden Not here... I still see GB instead of the flags. It's clearly browser/OS and even browser version dependant. I can tell you that the flags display in Firefox v 136.01, but not in the latest version, so the cause might be partly a change in Firefox. However, they do display in the latest Firefox in most other websites I try and, as I said earlier, in both the marketplace and here in the feedback site. So it's also a change in the SL forum.
Edit to add: I've cleared browser cache etc, just to make sure. Still no flags on the SL forum site.
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Issue tracked. We have no estimate when it may be implemented. Please see future updates here.
Rick Nightingale
Please see the thread on the forum; there are several screenshots showing the issue (the flags even show up in the 'inspect' on Firestorm, but not on the web page itself) and comments about where it works and where it doesn't.