On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 01:30:05 +0100 Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm trying to work out whether we need a variation sequence for > > "chesspiece in a sentence”. > > Of course! Haven’t you ever seen chess problem texts? Check out the > Fairy Chess proposal for encoding additional characters. Plenty of > examples there. Your examples did not have to contend with the possibility of fonts that only support the variants for drawing chessboards. > Sorry, I meant “Of course **not**!” that is, chesspiece in a sentence > is extremely common, and should be the default (not stylized) form. > We can’t repurpose that to be “chesspiece on a white square” because > it hasn’t been previously and changing that would affect the layout > of existing data. But would not your proposal make it legitimate for a font to supply only chess pieces on dark backgrounds for the chess piece characters? Richard.
