Variation Selectors Supplement

Unicode block containing additional Variation Selectors

Unicode character block

Variation Selectors Supplement is a Unicode block containing additional variation selectors beyond those found in the Variation Selectors block.

These combining characters are named variation selector-17 (for U+E0100) through to variation selector-256 (U+E01EF), abbreviated VS17 – VS256.

As of 12 December 2017^[update], VS17 (U+E0100) to VS48 (U+E011F) are used in ideographic variation sequences in the Unicode Ideographic Variation Database (IVD).^[3][4] These selectors are known as Ideographic Variation Selectors (IVS). They are not listed in the list of standardized variation sequence, instead they are listed in another Ideographic Variation Database.

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Variation Selectors Supplement block:

References

1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
3. "Ideographic Variation Database". Unicode Consortium.
4. "UTS #37, Unicode Ideographic Variation Database". Unicode Consortium.