Country flag emoji's don't display on Windows 10

[robinvdijk]

Plan

Premium

Country

Netherlands

Device

Laptop

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

None of the country flag emoji's display taken from https://emojipedia.org/flags/

Note that the regular flags (white flag, black flag, pirate flag etc.) do work, as well as regular emoji. See attachment. They only show up as their respective ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 notation.

[robinvdijk · Accepted solution]

Found the answer myself. It's not Spotify that's at fault, but Windows 10 itself.

Explanations are in this forum post

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/flag-emoji/85b163bc-786a-4918-9042-763ccf4b6c0...

[corumeach]

The reason is a concession from Microsoft to the Chinese government. The CCP does not accept the use of the flag of Taiwan. Apple therefore decided in 2017 simply not to add the flag of Taiwan on Apple devices. Apple thus practically recognizes the One China policy. Microsoft decided not to display any Emoji country flags at all and thus evaded a political position on the One China issue. Microsoft will not abandon China business. As long as the One China policy exists, there will be no country flags in Windows.