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Subject: Re: Representing the board in Unicode

Author: Manfred Rosenboom

Date: 10:58:53 07/12/99

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On July 12, 1999 at 05:13:50, Andreas Stabel wrote:

>The Unicode standard for representing characters in 16-bit has a definition
>of the chess pieces. I have written a small program which generates a
>chess board drawn with theese symbols, but neither Word, Netscape og Microsoft
>Internet Explorer manages to display this. Has anybody else tried this or
>know a program which is capable of printing theese symbols ?

Do you use a special Unicode font, which include all this special characters ?
Usual only a small subset of all Unicode characters is implemented in a Unicode
font, because else it will have a size of several MBs

Manfred



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