Variation Selectors (Unicode block)
Variation Selectors | |
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Range |
U+FE00..U+FE0F (16 code points) |
Plane | BMP |
Scripts | Inherited |
Assigned | 16 code points |
Unused | 0 reserved code points |
Unicode version history | |
3.2 | 16 (+16) |
Note: [1][2] |
Variation Selectors is a Unicode block containing 16 Variation Selector format characters (designated VS1 through VS16). They are used to specify a specific glyph variant for a Unicode 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 determine whether or not a character should be displayed as an emoji.[3]
Variation Selectors[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
U+FE0x | VS 1 |
VS 2 |
VS 3 |
VS 4 |
VS 5 |
VS 6 |
VS 7 |
VS 8 |
VS 9 |
VS 10 |
VS 11 |
VS 12 |
VS 13 |
VS 14 |
VS 15 |
VS 16 |
Notes
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History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Variation Selectors block:
Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | Document |
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3.2 | U+FE00..FE0F | 16 | L2/97-260 | Hiura, Hideki; Kobayashi, Tatsuo (1997-12-01), Plane 14 Variant Tag |
L2/98-039 | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-02-24), "2.D.4 Variant Tag Mechanism", Preliminary Minutes - UTC #74 & L2 #171, Mountain View, CA - December 5, 1997 | |||
L2/98-277 | Hiura, Hideki; Kobayashi, Tatsuo (1998-07-29), Plane 14 Variant tag | |||
L2/98-281R | Aliprand, Joan (1998-07-31), "III.E.3 Variant Tagging", Unconfirmed Minutes - UTC #77 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 174 JOINT MEETING, Redmond, WA -- July 29-31, 1998 | |||
L2/01-268 | Freytag, Asmus (2001-06-27), Variant selector | |||
L2/01-309 | Jenkins, John (2001-08-08), Variation selectors and Han | |||
L2/01-324R | Davis, Mark (2001-08-15), Variation Selectors | |||
L2/01-295R | Moore, Lisa (2001-11-06), "88-M5", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting #88 | |||
L2/17-086 | Burge, Jeremy; et al. (2017-03-27), Add ZWJ, VS-16, Keycaps & Tags to Emoji_Component | |||
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See also
References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- ↑ "StandardizedVariants.txt". Unicode Consortium. 2015-11-20. Retrieved 2016-08-28.
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