>> If the user community needs to preserve the distinction in plain-text, then >> variation selection is the right approach.
> True. However, the user community is tiny, and I suspect that those variation > selectors would never get used. I do not use Deseret myself. I opine that encoding the variation selector sequences would be good. My reason for that opinion is because I opine that Unicode should provide for such situations where they are known to exist, even if the usage of the encoding may be very rare. Am I correct in thinking that making use of such a variation selector encoding would be a font issue rather than an operating system issue? Unicode is intended to be a long-lasting standardized system, so hopefully adding the variation selector sequences into The Unicode Standard now would provide support for a very long time. Am I correct in thinking that the cost of adding the variation selector sequences into The Unicode Standard would be very small? William Overington Wednesday 22 March 2017
