Author: Manfred Rosenboom
Date: 04:23:36 07/13/99
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On July 13, 1999 at 04:49:33, Andreas Stabel wrote: >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. Unicode is NOT a font but only a specification, but because Windows 95/98/NT uses Unicode for the character representation every Windows font is also a Unicode compliant font. The problem is, that not every character defined by Unicode must be available in a Unicode compliant font implementation. The Unicode specification doesn't only hold the relation between a 16bit code and the character's name but also how to display such a character. A font which implements all the Unicode character is therefore relative large (several MBs). If you want to see all Unicode characters implemented in a Windows font, start the charmap.exe program (click on the Windows START button, than select "Execute" in the context menu and enter "charmap.exe"). All Windows fonts I know, do only implement a small subset of all available Unicode characters. Also I don't know any font, which implements the chess related Unicode characters. Manfred
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