At 10:54 AM 8/9/02 -0700, Andrew C. West wrote: >Actually, on second thoughts, why do we need a taboo variant selector when >we already have generic >variation selectors (U+FE00 through U+FE0F) ? The Standardized Variants >document ><http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/StandardizedVariants.html> states : > ><quote> >Han Variants >At this time no Han variants exist. When they do, a table will be inserted >here. ></quote> > >Surely if there ever was a place to put taboo-form variants, this is it.
The difference being that the table matches a certain number of ideographs with specific variants, where the taboo variant selector potentially matches any ideograph with an (unspecified) taboo variant.
