fix: repair corrupted flag emoji sequences in language switchers across 8 news article files#645
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- 🇸🇪 Swedish flag corrupted in EN/SV/DA/NO/FI language switchers - 🇬🇧 UK flag corrupted in DE language switcher - 🇪🇸 Spanish flag corrupted in AR/HE language switchers Replaces U+FFFD replacement character sequences with correct UTF-8 encoded regional indicator letter pairs for each flag. Co-authored-by: pethers <1726836+pethers@users.noreply.github.com>
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fix: repair corrupted flag emoji sequences in language switchers across 8 news article files
Feb 28, 2026
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Three flag emojis in the language switcher navigation were corrupted — each a pair of
U+FFFDreplacement characters substituting one of the two UTF-8 regional indicator codepoints that compose a flag emoji.Affected files and corruptions:
U+1F1F8 U+1F1EA→ second codepoint lost →EN,SV,DA,NO,FIfiles (line 56)U+1F1EC U+1F1E7→ first codepoint lost →DEfile (line 55)U+1F1EA U+1F1F8→ first codepoint lost →AR,HEfiles (line 49)Fix: Binary-replaced the
ef bf bd ef bf bdsequences with the correct UTF-8 byte sequences for the missing regional indicator letters in each file.🔒 GitHub Advanced Security automatically protects Copilot coding agent pull requests. You can protect all pull requests by enabling Advanced Security for your repositories. Learn more about Advanced Security.