Texas lawmaker introduces bill chastising Texans for using the Chilean flag emoji
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2DEAM)
Texas and Chile have remarkably similar flags (though Chile got theirs first, by a matter of decades) and Texas doesn't have a Unicode-defined emoji for its flag (just a sprinkling of proprietary ones that do not cross platforms gracefully), so Texans have taken to using the Chilean flag emoji as a shorthand for the longhorn state. (more")