<p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18px;">Thank you.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18px;">Interestingly I noticed today in the Unicode Current Documents Register web page the following document title, though the document is not posted at the time of writing this post.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:18px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Proposal to Encode a Set of 128 User-Defined Variation Selectors (WG2 N5266)</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:18px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">However, searching for WG2 N5266 did find a document.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5266-UVS_Proposal.pdf"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:18px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5266-UVS_Proposal.pdf</span></span></a></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18px;">So using Variation Selectors could, if the proposal is accepted, become a much more attractive proposition for researchers.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:18px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">It did occur to me that, in my opinion, it would be better to encode 256 User-Defined Variation Selectors.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:18px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">William Overington</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:18px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Friday 21 June 2024</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p>