No flag in the site

[KM-Kinter]

On windows, the flag does not show up, while on macOS and mobile it works

[DoomHammer]

@reinhrst can you take a look when you have a moment?

[KGrzeg]

We're using the following character for switcher:

• 🇬🇧 which is U+D83C UTF-8 utf8icons/55356
• 🇵🇱 which is U+DDEC UTF-8 utf8icons/56812

And I can confirrm that I am seeing them as two letters on Windows.
Also I see exactly the same characters in the source code: https://github.com/hs3city/hs3.pl/blob/main/config.toml#L10 https://github.com/hs3city/hs3.pl/blob/main/config.toml#L39 So it is not a problem with hugo nor some code processing.

From what I have read, Windows 10/11 does not support flags emojis at all 😓

We can work around that with images, or use webfont to render correct characters for everyone. I think, the font approach is the best.
https://lepture.com/en/2022/windows-country-flags-emoji

[reinhrst]

This is the

• 🇬🇧 which is U+D83C UTF-8 utf8icons/55356
• 🇵🇱 which is U+DDEC UTF-8 utf8icons/56812

I don't think this is correct; it's a combination of two unicode code points (regional indicator G and regional indicator B). Actually my editor (neovim) also displays them this way:

However more to the point: OS manufacturers decide themselves how they want things to look, and Windows indeed doesn't display them as flags.... One could argue that GB still is a good hint that it's a language switch (but I guess EN would be better). We can easily replace them for EN and PL if we thing this is better (or indeed use images, but it would be a bit more work).

[KM-Kinter]

So how we will do it?

Leave it like this time or I must change it to PL/GB (two letters only)?

[reinhrst]

I don't think there is an advantage to making it two letters, since it already displays as two letters on Windows, right?

Best would be to add two images, and use those. Either that, or leave it as it is, I would say.