Author: Andreas Stabel
Date: 01:23:28 07/14/99
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On July 13, 1999 at 07:23:36, Manfred Rosenboom wrote: >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 As you have understood, I didn't know this. Thank you very much for your clarification. I hope the chess pieces will be available in some fonts soon. Regards Andreas Stabel
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