From: Andreas Prilop (nhtcapri@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de)
Date: Mon Jan 30 2006 - 09:04:24 CST
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> I don't think Unicode should, or will, cover the use of colors
> in characters (apart from the existence of "white" and "black"
> versions of some symbols, like chess pieces, which are
> differences in shape rather than color - "black" and "white"
> really stand for "foreground color" and "background color").
Do you mean U+2654 ... U+265F ? IMHO, there is no different shape
and there is no foreground or background colour involved.
"White" and "Black" here could be replaced by "Player 1" and
"Player 2". Therefore, U+2654 and U+265A have different semantics,
not just different colours.
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