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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