BBC One English Regions opt outs: Minor flurry of regional content - Page 3

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dvboy 19 September 2019 10:41am

When BBC One originally launched on Sky, it only had four regions - England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (also available for the Channel Islands), Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Northern Ireland 🇮🇪 and Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, and you could only view one (depending on the post code of your viewing card). They would air UK Today and, in England, tell people to press TV then 1 for their local news. BBC Two was entirely national until 2002-2004-ish but the BBC Choice regions could be viewed anywhere. Yeah, Myina did her research

Got one of your flags wrong though.

BB

BBI45 19 September 2019 1:53pm

dvboy posted:

Po6xyPop77 posted:

When BBC One originally launched on Sky, it only had four regions - England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (also available for the Channel Islands), Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Northern Ireland 🇮🇪 and Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, and you could only view one (depending on the post code of your viewing card). They would air UK Today and, in England, tell people to press TV then 1 for their local news. BBC Two was entirely national until 2002-2004-ish but the BBC Choice regions could be viewed anywhere. Yeah, Myina did her research

Got one of your flags wrong though.

Just a heads up with using emojis. The ones you can select from the reply box work fine, but other emojis might not. I've got three black flags for England, Wales and Scotland, and 'IE' for Northern Ireland.

Last edited by BBI45 on 19 September 2019 2:14pm

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bilky asko 19 September 2019 2:01pm

BBI45 posted:

dvboy posted:

Po6xyPop77 posted:

When BBC One originally launched on Sky, it only had four regions - England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (also available for the Channel Islands), Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Northern Ireland 🇮🇪 and Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, and you could only view one (depending on the post code of your viewing card). They would air UK Today and, in England, tell people to press TV then 1 for their local news. BBC Two was entirely national until 2002-2004-ish but the BBC Choice regions could be viewed anywhere. Yeah, Myina did her research

Got one of your flags wrong though.

Just a heads up with using emojis. The ones you can select from the reply box work fine, but other emojis might not. I've got three black flags for England, Wales and Scotland, and 🇮🇪 for Northern Ireland.

I think that's a Windows 10 issue rather than a forum issue.

BB

BBI45 19 September 2019 2:12pm

bilky asko posted:

BBI45 posted:

dvboy posted:

Got one of your flags wrong though.

Just a heads up with using emojis. The ones you can select from the reply box work fine, but other emojis might not. I've got three black flags for England, Wales and Scotland, and 🇮🇪 for Northern Ireland.

I think that's a Windows 10 issue rather than a forum issue.

Looking back, my wording and intent might be slightly unclear. I understand that it is a Windows 10 issue, and they do work on my phone. However, I doubt that I'm the only one who spends most of their time using Windows 10 when browsing the forum, so I was just wanting to say it as a general reminder (to myself as well), that not everybody can see every emoji, and that, whilst in this case, it isn't the end of the world as the message still gets across, it's best not to become too dependent on them.

MA

Markymark 19 September 2019 2:16pm

bilky asko posted:

BBI45 posted:

dvboy posted:

Got one of your flags wrong though.

Just a heads up with using emojis. The ones you can select from the reply box work fine, but other emojis might not. I've got three black flags for England, Wales and Scotland, and 🇮🇪 for Northern Ireland.

I think that's a Windows 10 issue rather than a forum issue.

It is. Black Flags and the 🇮🇪 for me on my W10 Laptop, proper emoji flags on my Android phone

Edit: Firefox and Chrome show black flags, Edge shows four blocks after each flag. Does anybody bother with Edge ?

PF

PFML84 19 September 2019 3:02pm

Were the flags even needed? We know what England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are without needing a flag after them.

JA

JAS84 19 September 2019 3:27pm

Markymark posted:

bilky asko posted:

BBI45 posted:

Just a heads up with using emojis. The ones you can select from the reply box work fine, but other emojis might not. I've got three black flags for England, Wales and Scotland, and for Northern Ireland.

I think that's a Windows 10 issue rather than a forum issue.

It is. Black Flags and the for me on my W10 Laptop, proper emoji flags on my Android phone

Edit: Firefox and Chrome show black flags, Edge shows four blocks after each flag. Does anybody bother with Edge ?

I can see the flags just fine, in Chrome, thanks to a plug-in called Emoji Swap. The problem is platform related, not OS related. It's fine on mobile but desktop computer browsers need an extension.

JO

Jon 19 September 2019 3:29pm

PFMC84 posted:

Were the flags even needed? We know what England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are without needing a flag after them.

We know what 💩 is as well. I think you might as well ask what’s the point of Emojis.

Edit: I realised after you were talking about the context of the members post and not flag emojis in general.

MA

Markymark 19 September 2019 3:35pm

PFMC84 posted:

Were the flags even needed? We know what England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are without needing a flag after them.

Come on, get with it

https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/technology/digital-world/emoji-the-new-global-language/

Poxy-Pop or whatever she's called, is clearly a person of the future

NJ

Neil Jones Founding member 19 September 2019 3:50pm

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Po6xyPop77 19 September 2019 3:55pm

There is no flag emoji for Northern Ireland, so I improvised and put the general Irish flag in. Hope this clarifies it.

NJ

Neil Jones Founding member 19 September 2019 3:59pm

Po6xyPop77 posted:

There is no flag emoji for Northern Ireland

Yeah there might be a reason for that seeing as its part of the UK and everything, the Union Flag does the same job. NI did have its own flag for a while (Ulster Banner) but is now an unofficial flag.

BBC One English Regions opt outs

Minor flurry of regional content (August 2019)