# Why can two regional indicators stay two letters?

A flag emoji is two regional indicator scalars. One indicator is a letter symbol. A renderer can show the pair as two letters. Code points: U+1F1FA, U+1F1F8. Sequence support was not tested. The pair does not prove that a destination draws a flag. A non-equivalent fallback is "US" (The ASCII letters named by this pair). Two letters, not a flag emoji. The letters match only this two-indicator string. Font coverage, shaping, and application acceptance were not tested, so those results are unknown.

## Code points

- U+1F1FA REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER U
- U+1F1F8 REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER S

## What was checked

### Two regional indicators are a flag sequence

A flag emoji is two regional indicator scalars. One indicator is a letter symbol. A renderer can show the pair as two letters.

Sequence support was not tested. The pair does not prove that a destination draws a flag.

Keep both indicators when a flag sequence is required. Use the ASCII letters when the destination must not depend on an emoji flag.

### Two regional indicators are a flag sequence

A flag emoji is two regional indicator scalars. One indicator is a letter symbol. A renderer can show the pair as two letters.

Sequence support was not tested. The pair does not prove that a destination draws a flag.

Keep both indicators when a flag sequence is required. Use the ASCII letters when the destination must not depend on an emoji flag.

## What this does not prove

No OS, font, browser, application, field policy or rendering engine was tested. Unicode validity and segmentation do not establish actual display or acceptance.

Unicode release recorded with this answer: 18.0.0.
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