> Why do the flags,
> 🇨🇦; 🇺🇸;👁;🔭;
> seem to take up so many columns?
> emacs-version "28.2"

Do they?  Attached is what I see on GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1,
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.34, cairo version 1.16.0) of
2022-10-27.

It thus seems to be a font issue.


    Werner