Yesterday I published a document entitled "Some Private Use Area code points for chess pieces for use in chess diagrams." in our family webspace in England.
The direct web address for the document is as follows. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/chess.htm The document is also accessible from the index page of various documents about Private Use Area code points, which is as follows. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/golden.htm In that index page are links to documents about code points for ligatures and numbers as well as for chess pieces. There is also an email link for feedback about these collections of code points. The main index of our family webspace is as follows. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo Readers visiting the webspace might like to have a look at the various documents about the Microsoft Paint program which I have added recently. The one about the Microsoft WordPad program used in conjunction with Paint has some Unicode related content about Microsoft WordPad and Microsoft Calculator which may be of interest to some readers. I like to think of my collections of Private Use Area code points as an artform in their own right, as well as being scientific information which will hopefully be applied by many people, including myself. These code points for a chess fount increase that artform content as there are 80 code points defined in the Private Use Area, together with ZWJ sequences for 72 of them. These 72 ZWJ sequences each use a ligature mechanism effect involving a regular Unicode character and a Private Use Area code point. Thus a white knight upon a white square and a white knight upon a black square are each expressed as ligatures of U+2658 WHITE CHESS KNIGHT. William Overington 19 June 2002
