Garth Wallace asked: > I'm currently working towards a proposal to encode a set of symbols > used in fairy chess and chess variants, and I have a question about > naming conventions. Several of the symbols are rotations of already > encoded symbols. ... > > It's even more unclear when it comes to intermediate rotations in 45° > increments (I'm not sure if I will include these in any proposal; I'm > still doing research, gathering evidence of use and determining my > scope). Arrows seem to use ordinal compass directions (e.g. NORTH EAST > ARROW), but again these are not arrows. The names FAQ is silent on > this. > > I'm leaning towards "turned", "left rotated", and "right rotated" for > the cardinal orientations, and have no idea what (if anything) to do > about intermediate ones. Are there any more or less official > preferences?
When you start talking about sets of symbols rotated into 8 orientations each, doubled again by chirality, then you really are into the realm of a notational system -- perhaps not best handled for encoding by simply separately encoding each symbolic unit in each possible visual orientation. I suggest first taking a look at what was done for analyzing a similar problem of rotation of symbols for the SignWriting notation system. See: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12321-n4342-signwriting.pdf That should give you some ideas about possible alternative approaches for the material you are dealing with. --Ken _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
