Flag of Kyrgyzstan is incorrect

[masonhfisher]

On December 26, 2023, the government of Kyrgyzstan passed a bill that straightened the wavy sun rays of the national flag to reduce the resemblance of a sunflower as in Kyrgyz culture a sunflower can signify "a fickle and servile person willing to switch allegiance for personal benefit".

The Kyrgyzstan flag used on Twemoji is outdated and should be updated with the new flag.

Old flag used in Twemoji (1992-2023)

Updated flag (2023-)

The changes are relatively minor however I still believe it should be updated.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan
• https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/kyrgyzstan-moves-rid-national-flag-likeness-fickle-sunflower-2023-11-29/
• https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6412438 (Russian)

[martj42]

I went ahead and twemojifed it. Everyone feel free to use, modify or submit it to whatever. This is 17kb, which is quite a bit more than the current twemoji flag's 4kb so I'm sure the geometry could be optimized if that's important to anyone.

[Nerixyz]

so I'm sure the geometry could be optimized if that's important to anyone.

svgo is used for this. There's already a config in the repo: https://github.com/jdecked/twemoji/blob/314c9f493f5609ab3a2691fba9650827c3e317a1/svgo.config.js

[martj42]

I don't know. It does make it smaller but it also deforms the flag a bit:

(look at the sunflower petals going onto the football on the right and moving away from it on the left)

I any case, I'm happy with this being 17kb in size.

[martj42]

Turns out I wasn't happy. Here it is at 7kb and proper alignments.