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Subject: Re: Representing the board in Unicode

Author: Andreas Stabel

Date: 01:49:33 07/13/99

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On July 12, 1999 at 13:58:53, Manfred Rosenboom wrote:

>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

I'm not certain I understand the question. Unicode is one font which contain
all letters in almost all written languages + a lot of special characters.
Among those are the chess piece symbols.

I don't know if it need be so large. There are only approx. 30000 letters
defined so far if I remember correctly.

Regards
Andreas Stabel



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