WATERMARK SLAYER

variation selector block

A contiguous selector block reported as one observation without exposing decoded bytes.

Last reviewed

Registry facts

Code point or framing
U+FE00-U+FE0F, U+E0100-U+E01EF
Launch support
report-only
Launch action
report
Risk
high
Explicit writer selection required
no
Visible review label
[variation selector block]
Fixture
fixture_report_variation_selectors
Last fixture test

Why it may appear legitimately

Variation selectors intentionally choose glyph presentation, including text and emoji forms.

  • Unicode glyph variants and metadata encodings

Launch behavior

Registry status: report-only. Watermark Slayer reports this observation and does not propose a cleanup edit.

What a change could affect

Removing selectors can change visible glyph presentation or separate a meaningful selector sequence.

  • Selectors can be meaningful to visible glyph rendering.

Claim boundary

Finding this artifact says only that the specified code point or framing was observed. It is not an authorship verdict, detector score, or evidence that text came from a particular system.

Evidence