21 Missing Flags

[richard-livingston]

After testing I found there were 21 missing flags...

• AX:Åland Islands
• BV:Bouvet Island
• IO:British Indian Ocean Territory
• CX:Christmas Island
• CC:Cocos (Keeling) Islands
• FK:Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
• GF:French Guiana
• TF:French Southern Territories
• HM:Heard Island and Mcdonald Islands
• YT:Mayotte
• NU:Niue
• NF:Norfolk Island
• MP:Northern Mariana Islands
• PN:Pitcairn
• SH:Saint Helena
• PM:Saint Pierre and Miquelon
• GS:South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands
• SJ:Svalbard and Jan Mayen
• TK:Tokelau
• UM:United States Minor Outlying Islands
• WF:Wallis and Futuna

[richard-livingston]

Actually I just noticed 5 of these flags already exist, but the cloud.github url hasn't been updated

[scramatte]

We need spanish region flags : catalonia, valencia, euskadi (basque), galicia, ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_autonomous_communities_of_Spain

[lafeber]

The icon set at https://www.gosquared.com/resources/flag-icons/ solves most of these missing flags. @scramatte Specific region flags will not be included - sorry - this is for countries only. Perhaps it's a good idea to have a separate repo for these.

[kiwibrew]

Added a flag for Niue in #40

[quentindemetz]

I would also like to request a flag for Catalonia

[lafeber]

@quentindemetz Specific region flags will not be included - sorry - this is for countries only. I'll be the first to include the flag once Catalonia becomes independent!

[quentindemetz]

I'm not aware of all the use-cases of this library. Personally, I use it to provide a language picker for my customers and some of them speak Catalan. I agree we don't want to provide a flag for the thousands of languages out there but then again it doesn't seem (to me) like Catalan is a minority language. It kinda sucks having to include one more image file for just one language and being able to rely on your great sprite for everybody else...

Furthermore, I believe exceptions are already being made to this "rule" (see here for OPEC, _Commonwealth, _Olimpic_Movement, _Red_Cross, _NATO). So where's the harm in making yet another small exception ? It seems like it will only increase the sprite size by < 1%, which is a minor con.

Thanks for the great work so far and let me know if you change your position :)

[trfx]

Can you add a flag for EU? Would be nice.

[johnnyshields]

@lafeber I urge you to support all countries in the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard. I think this ISO standard is a very clear-cut way to determine what is a country and what is not.

Other libraries for example Google's "libphone" maps phone numbers to these ISO alpha-2 country codes and we get flag missing.