Variation Selectors (Unicode block)
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variation-selectors-unicode-block-206-12270476
title:
Variation Selectors (Unicode block)
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Variation Selectors is a Unicode block containing 16 variation selectors used to specify a 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–VS4, VS7, VS15 and VS16 have been defined; VS15 and VS16 are reserved to request that a character should be
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Unicode character block
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_Selectors_(Unicode_block)
date created:
2014-01-24T01:50:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T20:11:08Z
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