Please be patient. Michael Everson http://evertype.com
> On 20 Jul 2025, at 13:32, Harriet Riddle via Unicode > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The following is the most recent and, as it transpired, potentially final > update on the status of the BabelStone Han variation selector sequences: > > > “It is intended to register a BabelStone Collection in the IVD at a future > > date when the sequences listed here are stable. […] NB I plan to reassign > > most of the IVSes marked with an asterisk so they have a unique IVS > > sequence. When the CAAPH collection is accepted for registration in the IVD > > I will also need to reassign many of the BabelStone Han IVS sequences which > > conflict with the collection.” > > —https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/BSH_IVS_BETA.html > > Now, I'd always wondered when “when the sequences listed here are stable” > would be—but I was not expecting that it would be as soon as this year that > BabelStone's untimely passing, not long before the CAAPH collection was > registered, would sadly settle that question. > > Consequently, I do wonder about the future status of these variation selector > sequences, given that the current versions of the BabelStone fonts are > presumably either final or, at minimum, would effectively serve as a memorial > watershed. In particular, those of the sequences implemented by the current > version of the font which do not conflict with existing registered IVSes. > > —Har.
