{"id":56886,"date":"2025-05-22T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-jose-officials-push-for-south-vietnam-flag-emoji\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:30:15","slug":"san-jose-officials-push-for-south-vietnam-flag-emoji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/san-jose-officials-push-for-south-vietnam-flag-emoji\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose officials push for South Vietnam flag emoji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As emojis become a widespread form of global messaging, San Jose leaders are calling on the world\u2019s leading text encoders to add a symbol for the Flag of South Vietnam. The City Council voted unanimously\u00a0Tuesday to urge the Unicode Consortium \u2014 the Mountain View-based organization overseeing the digitized use of text in all of the world\u2019s writing systems \u2014 to adopt the flag of a fallen government with historical and political significance to\u00a0refugees from the Vietnam War who live in San Jose. Standard smartphones only provide the use of Vietnam\u2019s official flag representing the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which draped&hellip;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-jose-officials-push-for-south-vietnam-flag-emoji\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a> @San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As emojis become a widespread form of global messaging, San Jose leaders are calling on the world\u2019s leading text encoders to add a symbol for the Flag of South Vietnam. The City Council voted unanimously\u00a0Tuesday to urge the Unicode Consortium \u2014 the Mountain View-based organization overseeing the digitized use of text in all of the &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}