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 | |
|---|---|
| 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 (2002) | 16 (+16) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
| 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[a] | Count | Document | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 | U+FE00..FE0F | 16 | (to be determined) | ||
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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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