That encouraged him to lead an effort to formally request that the nonprofit that standardizes emojis, Unicode Consortium, based in Mountain View, add the flag of South Vietnam. "We got 11 of us ...

By Brandon Pho. As emojis become a widespread form of global messaging, San Jose leaders are calling on the world's leading text encoders to add a symbol for the Flag of South Vietnam.

San Jose leaders to push for emoji of South Vietnam flag 03:13. As people continue to use emojis more and more frequently, the options are becoming even more important.