Unicode: Variation Selector
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What is Unicode Variation Selector
- Variation Selectors is a collection of invisible characters placed after another character to indicate a desired presentation. (such as skin color for emoji, or whether to show a symbol as emoji or text. γsee Unicode: Emoji vs Textγ )
- There are 16 Variation Selectors, from Codepoint U+FE00 to U+FE0F. They are abbreviated as VS1 to VS16.
Variation Selector 15 and 16 are used to indicate text rendering or emoji rendering, for those character that have both presentation.
- "U+FE0E: VARIATION SELECTOR-15"
- Indicator for text rendering.
- "U+FE0F: VARIATION SELECTOR-16"
- Indicator for emoji rendering.
Unicode and Encoding Explained
- Unicode: Character Set, Encoding, UTF-8, Codepoint
- Unicode: Codepoint
- Unicode: Character Name
- ASCII Characters
- Unicode: UTF-8 Encoding
- Unicode: UTF-16 Encoding
- Unicode: Surrogate Pair
- Unicode: Byte Order (Endianness)
- Unicode: BOM, Byte Order Mark
- Set Text Editor File Encoding
- Unicode: Letter Character
- Unicode: Variation Selector