> U+262B FARSI SYMBOL
> This symbol is so named because as symbol of Iran it cannot be encoded in ISO standards.
It would seem strange that ISO standards cannot refer to countries, so I'm guessing this is something specific to Iran?
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As noted by Roozbeh Pournader:
Neither Farsi, nor a symbol. In real life, it is the official emblem of the goverment of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Technically that would make it a logo and thus not a suitable candidate for encoding. But Roozbeh also noted:
Exactly. The funny fact is that it has been in Unicode since 1.0...
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How reliable this is I don't know, but it sounds plausible.
[1] http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2005/01/29/36320...
Aside: Microsoft sucks for having purged blogs like that one. The archive you're looking at captures most of what was once Michael Kaplan's blog at Microsoft. Kaplan was terminated by Microsoft and then died, and his blog was one of a large number of valuable blogs with insights into Windows technologies that at some point were "tidied away" because they didn't fit whatever nonsense brand vision somebody had that week.
https://aka.ms/RootCert will always be Microsoft's Root Trust programme documentation (how a Certificate Authority like Let's Encrypt gets themselves listed as trusted in Windows) even when Microsoft decides that page should now be in the form of a GIF anim or a 3D bullet hell game.
I suspect this is actually shorthand for "ISO wanted to avoid referring to countries in Unicode character names". But that ship has clearly sailed nowadays with characters like U+1F5FE ("SILHOUETTE OF JAPAN").
This may sound pedantic, but Japan the island or Japan the nation? It seems to refer to the island(s). On the other hand, the "farsi symbol" is of a particular nation rather than a given set of boundaries. Nations can be renamed, but the island of Japan refers to the chunk of earth. Add to that that nations get redrawn every so often in the middle east and I can understand the position.