Future of the BabelStone Han variation selectors

[Michael Everson]

Please be patient. 

Michael Everson
http://evertype.com

> On 20 Jul 2025, at 13:32, Harriet Riddle via Unicode <unicode at corp.unicode.org> wrote:
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> The following is the most recent and, as it transpired, potentially final update on the status of the BabelStone Han variation selector sequences:
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> > “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.”
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> —https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/BSH_IVS_BETA.html
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> —Har.