X's Andorra Flag Emoji Duplicates Béarn Bars, Omits Catalan Senyera

Users on the social network X have highlighted an inaccuracy in the platform's Andorra flag emoji, which duplicates the three red bars of the County of Béarn—sometimes linked to Foix in reports—and excludes the four red bars of the Catalan senyera from the bottom left quarter of the shield.

Andorra's flag features a quartered coat of arms: the arms of the episcopal co-prince, those of the Count of Foix, the senyera representing Catalonia, and two red cows symbolizing the ancient Viscountcy of Béarn. Unicode provides an exact graphical reference, but companies such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, and X develop their own renderings for apps and operating systems.

X's Twemoji redesigned the emoji in 2015, apparently mistaking the Béarn bars for the senyera and repeating the three-bar design while removing the four Catalan bars. Google's version, in contrast, accurately shows the full quartered shield.

The issue gained fresh attention after Grok, X's AI chatbot, responded to user complaints. Grok attributed the flaw to an "artistic simplification" during the 2015 Twemoji update, driven by the icon's small size on screens. It confirmed designers had confused the three Béarn bars with the senyera, leading to the duplication and omission, and acknowledged the error as unintentional—not political or cultural. Grok noted that most other platforms display the flag correctly and lacks authority to change graphics, which rests with the design team. It urged Andorran users to report the issue via X's official support channels, detailing steps within the app's help menu to push for a fix to the nearly decade-old problem.

Neither X nor its representatives beyond Grok have commented further or announced corrections.