Variation Selectors Supplement is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ad ...
containing additional
Variation Selectors
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 standardize ...
beyond those found in the
Variation Selectors
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 standardize ...
block.
These combining characters are named ''variation selector-17'' (for U+E0100) through to ''variation selector-256'' (U+E01EF), abbreviated VS17 – VS256.
, VS17 (U+E0100) to VS48 (U+E011F) are used in ideographic variation sequences in the Unicode Ideographic Variation Database (IVD).
These selectors are known as Ideographic Variation Selectors (IVS). They are not listed in the list of standardized variation sequence, instead they are listed in anothe
Ideographic Variation Database
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Variation Selectors Supplement block:
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Unicode blocks