[bug report] Unicode characters with "Variation Selector-15" (U+FE0E) are not rendered as text in iOS 18.1.1

I reported this bug one year ago in https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/746406, but as it is not been fixed yet, I'm going to try by opening this new incident report.

iOS is not working for the Unicode Variation Selector-15 (U+FE0E) for all the characters.

Can you please apply that variation selector to all your Unicode characters?

I) Steps to reproduce the issue: navigate in safari to the page https://eurovot.com/vs.htm

II) Expected result: as the 1st column of characters have the Variation Selector-15 (U+FE0E) applied, and the 2nd column have the Variation Selector-16 (U+FE0F) applied, the first column should always display text characters (in orange) and the second column emoji characters.

III) Error result: some characters are working fine in the 1st column and displayed as text (in orange colour), but some other aren't displayed as text, they wrongly displayed as emojis instead.

I reported this bug one year ago in https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/746406

That's not a bug report, it's a developer forum post.

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[bug report] Unicode characters with "Variation Selector-15" (U+FE0E) are not rendered as text in iOS 18.1.1
 
 
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