Variation Selectors (Unicode block)

Variation Selectors is the block name of a Unicode code point block containing 16 variation selectors. Each variation selector is used to specify a specific glyph variant for a preceding character. They are currently used to specify standardized variation sequences for mathematical symbols, emoji symbols, 'Phags-pa letters, and CJK unified ideographs corresponding to CJK compatibility ideographs. At present only standardized variation sequences with VS1, VS2, VS3, VS15 and VS16 have been defined; VS15 and VS16 are reserved to request that a character should be displayed as text or as an emoji respectively.

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enVariation Selectors is the block name of a Unicode code point block containing 16 variation selectors. Each variation selector is used to specify a specific glyph variant for a preceding character. They are currently used to specify standardized variation sequences for mathematical symbols, emoji symbols, 'Phags-pa letters, and CJK unified ideographs corresponding to CJK compatibility ideographs. At present only standardized variation sequences with VS1, VS2, VS3, VS15 and VS16 have been defined; VS15 and VS16 are reserved to request that a character should be displayed as text or as an emoji respectively.
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enVariation Selectors is the block name of a Unicode code point block containing 16 variation selectors. Each variation selector is used to specify a specific glyph variant for a preceding character. They are currently used to specify standardized variation sequences for mathematical symbols, emoji symbols, 'Phags-pa letters, and CJK unified ideographs corresponding to CJK compatibility ideographs. At present only standardized variation sequences with VS1, VS2, VS3, VS15 and VS16 have been defined; VS15 and VS16 are reserved to request that a character should be displayed as text or as an emoji respectively. These combining characters are named variation selector-1 (for U+FE00) through to variation selector-16 (U+FE0F), and are abbreviated VS1 – VS16. Each applies to the immediately preceding character. As of Unicode 13.0: * CJK compatibility ideograph variation sequences contain VS1–VS3 (U+FE00–U+FE02) * CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A and B variation sequences contain VS1 (U+FE00) and VS2 (U+FE01) * Emoji variation sequences contain VS16 (U+FE0F) for emoji-style (with color) or VS15 (U+FE0E) for text style (monochrome) * Basic Latin, Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms, Manichaean, Myanmar, Myanmar Extended-A, Phags-pa, and mathematical variation sequences contain only VS1 (U+FE00) * VS4–VS14 (U+FE03–U+FE0D) are not used for any variation sequences This list is continued in the Variation Selectors Supplement.
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www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00187.htm
www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01268-vs.txt
www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01309-cwk.pdf
www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01324r-variation_selectors.htm
www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02154-n2403-minutes.pdf
www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17086-vs16-keycaps-emoji.pdf
www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17103.htm
www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98039.pdf
www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98281R.htm
www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98281r.pdf
www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2403.pdf
www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFE00.pdf
www.unicode.org/consortium/utc-minutes/UTC-088-200108.html
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'Phags-pa script
Basic Latin (Unicode block)
Category:Unicode blocks
CJK compatibility ideographs
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B
Emoji
Halfwidth and fullwidth forms
International Committee for Information Technology Standards
Manichaean (Unicode block)
Myanmar (Unicode block)
Myanmar Extended-A
Phags-pa (Unicode block)
SC 2
Script (Unicode)
Unicode
Unicode block
Variant form (Unicode)
Variation Selectors
Variation Selectors Supplement
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Q21040917
Q2494106
UFE00
Unicodeblock Variantenselektoren
Variation Selectors (blok Unicode)
Variation Selectors (Unicode block)
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異体字セレクタ
異體字選擇器
變體選擇符 (Unicode區段)
Script
Script (Unicode)
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Variation Selectors Supplement
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Category:Unicode blocks
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