Github Markdown: Find emoji for the flag of Brazil

Question

I am trying to use the Brazilian flag using markdown. But it is not as straightforward as I thought. That is to say writing :pt-BR: like for the American flag (:us:) or the Italian flag (:it:).

I found lots of repositories and lists, but none of them showed the flag I was looking for.

Is it possible to use the Brazilian flag, or get it into my README.md on Github?

Haley

Thank you for the edit. It's a valuable insight for my next questions. – Haley

Answer 1

You can just use

<span>&#x1f1e7;&#x1f1f7;</span>

or simply copy and paste the unicode character from http://emojipedia.org/flag-for-brazil/ (or from here: 🇧🇷)

Demo

Linskey

Thanks for the answer. Still I get this: Brazilian Flag. – Haley

Well, actually displays on the latest Safari for iPhone. Thank you for the support. – Haley

Great answer but emoji flags are not supported in Chromium browsers on windows. Best option would be an svg or png image from flagpedia.net – Fillister

Answer 2

This should be much easier and works :

:brazil:

Cricoid

Doesn't work for me. Many other flags seem to be missing on GitHub servers as well (Portugal, Belize, ...). – Anomie