On Jan 19, 2004, at 12:14 PM, Dean Snyder wrote:
But now that I know that it is already part of the model for some scripts
in Unicode and is being considered for further use, as in Han and Hebrew,
I question whether this is the technical hair-brained, off-the-wall idea
some have tried to make it out to be.
It use in Han is/will be restricted to cases where a base character can have multiple glyphic forms which some people may want to distinguish in plain text. In all cases where variation selectors are being used, it's because the underlying *identity* of the character is constant, but its particular glyph cannot be determined fully by context and font/font settings.
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