Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

[Kent Karlsson]

Den 2017-04-06 02:47, skrev "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>:

> Well, see my follow-up to James Kass and evaluate the merits of the two
> choices.

> Do generic font makers intend to support both graphic terminal
> emulation and chess?

I don't know. But it should not be impossible to do so.

> Should chess font makers be burdened with graphic
> terminal emulation glyphs they know nothing about?

If it is really a chess font, they can just use the glyphs for the chess
variety also as the "plain" (terminal emulator variety), and it would not
matter (as long as no-one insist on using it for terminal emulation). All
that is needed for that is a manoeuvre to copy a few glyphs within the font
(when creating the font). I guess that is not very hard...

/Kent K


>> On 6 Apr 2017, at 01:31, Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14 at telia.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Exactly.
>> 
>> /K
>> 
>> Den 2017-04-06 01:25, skrev "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>:
>> 
>>> 2581 FE00; Chessboard box drawing; # LOWER ONE EIGHTH BLOCK
>>> 258F FE00; Chessboard box drawing; # LEFT ONE EIGHTH BLOCK
>>> 2594 FE00; Chessboard box drawing; # UPPER ONE EIGHTH BLOCK
>>> 2595 FE00; Chessboard box drawing; # RIGHT ONE EIGHTH BLOCK
>>> 2596 FE00; Chessboard box drawing; # QUADRANT LOWER LEFT
>>> 2597 FE00; Chessboard box drawing; # QUADRANT LOWER RIGHT
>>> 2598 FE00; Chessboard box drawing; # QUADRANT UPPER LEFT
>>> 259D FE00; Chessboard box drawing; # QUADRANT UPPER RIGHT
>>> 
>>> I guess I see your point. It does no harm, especially if the font might
>>> possibly be used for graphics terminal emulation. ;-)
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