Marco asked: > Asmus Freytag wrote: > > In a few cases, where clear glyph alternatives exist and > > where there is a strong requirement to preserve them in > > plain text, the use of a Variation Selector character > > can be defined, allowing one to express the distinction. > > Will Unicode define which glyph variation is associated to any combination > of <variation selector> + <code point>?
The answer is yes. Only those combinations which are defined by the UTC and posted in StandardizedVariants.html will be interpretable. See PDUTR #28 Unicode 3.2, Article IV, Section 13.7 Variation Selectors. StandardizedVariants.html is not yet posted in the BETA directory for Unicode 3.2 (the editors are still wrestling with glyphs to use for it), but will be soon. --Ken