Re: Chess symbols

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 10:43:44 EDT

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Marco Cimarosti scripsit:

> The dingbats for chess pieces would not be valid "characters", according to
> the basic Unicode principles. They are there only for roundtripping
> compatibility with some older CJK character set which had them.

I have seen them in running text (as opposed to R, B, N, K, P, Q) in
older chess books.

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