Yes, it would really be great if the Unicode Consortium designated some Unicode codepoints to be combining characters specifying the type of glyph to be used fo

Yes, it would really be great if the Unicode Consortium designated some Unicode codepoints to be combining characters specifying the type of glyph to be used for the preceding Han character… and in fact, it seems like they have (for some at least)! The Variation Selectors Unicode block¹ has three variation selectors designated for this purpose: • U+FE00 VARIATION SELECTOR-1 • U+FE01 VARIATION SELECTOR-2 • U+FE02 VARIATION SELECTOR-3 I assume they work like U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 (for 'text presentation' of the preceding character) and U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 (for 'emoji presentation' of the preceding character). You can see examples of that in action here². ―――――― ¹ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_Selectors_%28Unicode_block%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_Selectors_%28Unicode... ² — https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/180400/how-to-turn-off-emojis-entirely-on-ios/240450#240450 https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/180400/how-to-turn...