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I was shocked just now reading about this "variation selector", what is next, conditionals and variables??? I thought (still think) Unicode is for text, these a

I was shocked just now reading about this "variation selector", what is next, conditionals and variables??? I thought (still think) Unicode is for text, these are more like control characters in some markup language or a transmission protocol. It seems gross. I obviously don't know, but something tells me this has little real world support and degrades poorly?

pjc50 6y ago
Variant selection was required for some languages, and was a convenient way to implement "combining" characters. Once the feature existed its use got extended to all sorts of cases, just like the flags are "ligatures".