Since a couple of days Firefox 86 on Windows 10 does not render Unicode regional indicators as flag symbols anymore and shows them as two letters instead.
Short introduction: Some of you will probably know them from the digital release availability annotations generated by a-tisket. For those who do not know what I mean and probably have never seen them because they are not supported by every browser / OS combination, I will give a short example: The combination of the Unicode characters 🇺 and 🇸 (different from U and S - just in case they look similar with your browser’s font) is supposed to look like a United States flag: 
Discourse is cheating again (see my post below), better use this random a-tisket annotation as example. Please refer to Wikipedia if you can not see the flag before each country name in the annotationat the end of the last line:
Problem: The display of these flag symbols used to work with the default fonts under Windows 10 for a couple of months now and I have not changed any font-related settings since. For Firefox on Linux the problem does not exist and my research did not reveal any indication that this ever should have worked on Windows!? I am seriously confused as until a few months ago it did in fact not work and then it suddenly worked… until now 
Does anyone else have this problem with these flags? Have you ever seen them under Windows 10? Are they still working for you? Although this is only loosely related to MB I think this is nevertheless a good place to pose these questions since many editors are using a-tisket and might have the same problem.
- Firefox 86
- an older version of Firefox
- a Chromium-based browser
- a different browser
- The flags used to be rendered but now I can not see them anymore.
- Which flags? I have never seen them…
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