William Overington wrote: > Would a variation selector sequence be something specified > and encoded by the Unicode Consortium [...]?
Yes. See <http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr28/#13_7_variation_selectors>: "Only the variation sequences specifically defined in the Unicode Character Database in the file StandardizedVariants.html are sanctioned for standard use; in all other cases the variation selector cannot change the visual appearance of the preceding base character from what it would have had, in the absence of the variation selector." The combinations defined so far are all for math and Mongolian: http://www.unicode.org/Public/3.2-Update/StandardizedVariants-3.2.0.html _ Marco
