Does macOS support standard Unicode variation selectors (other than U+FE0E and U+FE0F)?

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tkmcintosh OP

Created Apr ’24

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Hi,

I'm interested in creating a font with alternate glyphs that are accessed via Unicode variation selectors, but I'm getting the impression that macOS does not really support these, generally. For example, I'm unable to enter the variation selectors (other than U+FE0F) into a document in Pages or TextEdit using Unicode Hex Input. Is my hunch correct?

I'm interested in using the standardized variations listed here:

http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/StandardizedVariants.txt

Specifically, slashed zero:

0030 FE00; short diagonal stroke form; # DIGIT ZERO

Thanks for any insight you may be able to provide.

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tkmcintosh OP

Apr ’24

Note: For my current use case, I think I can get by using the combining forms of long solidus (U+0338) and reverse solidus (U+20E5), but I'm still interested in the answer to the original question.

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