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Do variation selectors solve this problem? i.e., is there some way for me to include a variation selector in a filename or terminal output or something and have
by geofft 7y ago
Do variation selectors solve this problem? i.e., is there some way for me to include a variation selector in a filename or terminal output or something and have things render right?
- yorwba 7y agoI think variation selectors are intended for the case where even knowing the language is not enough to select the correct glyph, e.g. because they have been unified in a national standard despite different variants remaining in use. If one of those variants happens to be used in another country, you could of course use it to fix at least some cases, but I don't think all unified characters have a selector for each of their country-specific variants. Even if they did, the Ideographic Variation Database [1] doesn't exactly make it easy to use variation selectors for that purpose, because you only get an example demonstrating what the glyphs should look like. To find out which glyph (and hence variation selector) to use for a given language, you'd need an additional database. [1] https://unicode.org/ivd/data/2017-12-12/ https://unicode.org/ivd/data/2017-12-12/