A Texas House representative from Cypress has introduced a resolution urging Texans to quit using the Chilean flag emoji as a stand-in for the Lone Star.

HCR 75, filed Thursday, urges "Texans not to use the flag emoji of the Republic of Chile when referring to the Texas flag."

File this in the "yes, it's a real thing" category.

It's an easy mistake to make. The Chilean flag looks similar, except the blue field doesn't extend all the way down the left side of the flag. The Unicode Technical Committee, the folks who are in charge of emojis, don't have state-specific flags.

Many Texans, starved for emoji representation, use the Chilean banner as a substitute.

It's weird that emoji only have the Texas state flag and none of the other states 🇨🇱

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😏 — dannel (PDX/XOXO 9/4-9/11, CHI 9/11-9/15) (@DeMarko) February 16, 2017

That flag doesn't fly with Rep. Tom Oliverson, R-Cypress.

"I noticed that a lot of people will put 'God bless Texas' and put the Chilean flag," Oliverson said. "Just because it's the closest thing doesn't mean it's an appropriate substitute."

Oliverson recognizes that the emoji debate is "not the most pressing issue" in front of the 85th Legislature, but also said the Lone Star flag — which was adopted in 1839 as the third of the Republic of Texas — is a sacred symbol among Texans. He hopes people take it as a bipartisan, tongue-in-cheek issue ... with some seriousness.

Oliverson's resolution does not go so far as to establish an official state emoji, but he wants to use #TheBlueGoesAllTheWayDown to make sure people know the difference between the banners.

This isn't the first time there's been confusion between our flag and the Chilean flag. In 2011, Atascosa County officials accidentally sent out information to absentee voters with the wrong flag.

Rep. @TomOliverson for the win: files resolution urging Texans to not use Chile flag emoji in reference to the #Texas flag! #txlege 🇨🇱 https://t.co/4IWPO20pwM — Jared Staples (@JaredStaples) February 16, 2017

I also like how it wasn't "campaign to have a Texas emoji created." It was just, "tell people Chile isn't Texas" — Kevin Cullen (@KevinMCullen) February 16, 2017