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Variation Selectors (Unicode block)
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Miscellaneous_Symbols_and_Pictographs/Tk2BJsnn">Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs § Emoji modifiers</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Variant_form_(Unicode)/CjXhs89M">Variant form (Unicode)</a></li></ul> <h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Variation Selectors block: </p> <table><tbody><tr><th><a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">Version</a></th><th>Final code points<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></th><th>Count</th><th><a href="/facts/International_Committee_for_Information_Technology_Standards/CXq4JYfR">L2</a> ID</th><th><a href="/facts/ISO%2fIEC_JTC_1%2fSC_2/IcW7grUW">WG2</a> ID</th><th>Document</th></tr><tr><td rowspan="12">3.2</td><td rowspan="12">U+FE00..FE0F</td><td rowspan="12">16</td><td>L2/97-260</td><td></td><td>Hiura, Hideki; <a href="/facts/Tatsuo_Kobayashi/fIVjlcjP">Kobayashi, Tatsuo</a> (1997-12-01), <i>Plane 14 Variant Tag</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98039.pdf">L2/98-039</a></td><td></td><td>Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-02-24), "2.D.4 Variant Tag Mechanism", <i>Preliminary Minutes - UTC #74 & L2 #171, Mountain View, CA - December 5, 1997</i></td></tr><tr><td>L2/98-277</td><td></td><td>Hiura, Hideki; Kobayashi, Tatsuo (1998-07-29), <i>Plane 14 Variant tag</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98281r.pdf">L2/98-281R (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98281R.htm">html</a>)</td><td></td><td>Aliprand, Joan (1998-07-31), "III.E.3 Variant Tagging (III.E.3)", <i>Unconfirmed Minutes – UTC #77 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 174 JOINT MEETING, Redmond, WA -- July 29-31, 1998</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00187.htm">L2/00-187</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2000-08-23), "Variation Selector", <i>UTC minutes -- Boston, August 8-11, 2000</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01268-vs.txt">L2/01-268</a></td><td></td><td>Freytag, Asmus (2001-06-27), <i>Variant selector</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01309-cwk.pdf">L2/01-309</a></td><td></td><td>Jenkins, John (2001-08-08), <i>Variation selectors and Han</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01324r-variation_selectors.htm">L2/01-324R</a></td><td></td><td><a href="/facts/Mark_Davis_(Unicode)/9xdIRMGW">Davis, Mark</a> (2001-08-17), <i>Variation Selectors [document has incorrect L2 ID number]</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/consortium/utc-minutes/UTC-088-200108.html">L2/01-295R</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2001-11-06), "88-M5", <i>Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting #88</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02154-n2403-minutes.pdf">L2/02-154</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2403.pdf">N2403</a></td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-04-22), "7.12", <i>Draft minutes of WG 2 meeting 41, Hotel Phoenix, Singapore, 2001-10-15/19</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17086-vs16-keycaps-emoji.pdf">L2/17-086</a></td><td></td><td><a href="/facts/Jeremy_Burge/fN94TrYL">Burge, Jeremy</a>; et al. (2017-03-27), <i>Add ZWJ, VS-16, Keycaps & Tags to Emoji_Component</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17103.htm">L2/17-103</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "E.1.7 Add ZWJ, VS-16, Keycaps & Tags to Emoji_Component", <i>UTC #151 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"StandardizedVariants.txt". Unicode Consortium. 2015-11-20. Retrieved 2016-08-28. <a href="https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/StandardizedVariants.txt" target="_blank">https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/StandardizedVariants.txt</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Emoji Variation Sequences". Unicode Consortium. 2020-09-18. Retrieved 2020-11-18. <a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Emoji_Variation_Sequences" target="_blank">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Emoji_Variation_Sequences</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"UCD: Standardized Variation Sequences". Unicode Consortium. <a href="https://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/StandardizedVariants.txt" target="_blank">https://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/StandardizedVariants.txt</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>