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Block 309 : Chess Symbols Wow, Unicode seems to be expanding way out of the original goal of representing written characters - how often would these symbols be
by another2another 4y ago
Block 309 : Chess Symbols
Wow, Unicode seems to be expanding way out of the original goal of representing written characters - how often would these symbols be even used? And how many font sets would bother including them?
- an_ko 4y agoWikipedia has some rationale: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode Probably the most notable: > Use figurine algebraic notation, which replaces the letter that stands for a piece by its symbol, e.g. ♘c6 instead of Nc6. This enables the moves to be read independent of language (the letter abbreviations of pieces in algebraic notation vary from language to language).