[jug]

I'm not surprised the flag had two components, but I _was_ surprised the US flag was made by literally U and S, haha!

I definitely thought it'd be something like [I am a Flag] and [The flag ID between 0 and 65535]. And reversing it would be [Flag ID] + [I am a Flag] which would not be a defined "component" and instead rendered as the individual two nonsense characters.

[andylynch]

You might also have noticed this is partly a very well thought out hack to make Unicode less sensitive to disagreements and changes in consensus on which flags are encoded, or even the names of the countries concerned!