> On 7 Oct 2016, at 09:27, Garth Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unicode doesn't really address chess piece properties like white/black beyond > naming conventions.
>From the formal point of view, Unicode only assigns character numbers (code >points), which gets a binary representation first when encoded, like with >UTF-8 which makes it agree with ASCII for small numbers. The math alphabetical >letters are out of order because of legacy, but that is not a problem as one >will use an interface that sorts it out. These numbers are only for display to >humans, and computers are nowadays fast enough to sort it out. A chess program >has its own, optimized representation anyway. So possibly you might add more properties.
