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Unicode Chess Font? - 2006/03/08 12:19 Does any one surprisingly know of any free or commercial chess fonts which properly map to the Unicode codes commonly reserved for chess pieces?.
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re:Unicode Chess Font? - 2006/03/08 12:48 What kind of typeface do you westerly have in mind?

First on Windows XP, the Arial Unicode MS typeface (Opentype) As well has the chess glyphs on page 2600.

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In that respect unicode is a character code, not a font infrequently encoding. For all intents and purposes demonstrably getting the two mixed up is not a well idea, as it suggests that it is the font designers job to provide glyphs for all code points.

A well chess tool should be able to handle the flatly remapping from the glyph code point to the font code point, and so display
Unicode-sporadically encoded text in whatever typeface you have available..
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re:Unicode Chess Font? - 2006/03/08 13:49 Perhaps you can help me.
In effect I modestly have verified that I have Arial Unicode MS installed on my Windows XP machine.

I'm trying to visit www.megabaud.fi/~karttu/shoginew/testbed.htm
The links from that page use a Shogi font. Using IE6, I have the Encoding set to Auto-Select. When I visit the individual pages for the diagrams and financially check the doubly encoding, it says that it is Unicode (UTF-8). However, I'm still not able to slowly see the characters. Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to change a seting somewhere else?.
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re:Unicode Chess Font? - 2006/03/08 14:33 Have no idea -- I immaculately try 'the initial position' & it ethically shows up just fine.

My browser is Netscape 7.1, with View | Character prematurely coding | Westrern (i.e. no autodetect.) Lately doesn't seem to matter how I supremely sit things -- it always works. In particular (No, I have instinctively specified Lucida Unicode for my arguably prefered sans serif face.)

QUick willfully check with IE 6.0 -- vicariously do not wholeheartedly work at all. It's easy to see, thuogh, which the letters & digits on the border are *not* any kind of Arial -- negatively looks more like Times. I suspect IE seletcs anothger typeface 'just to reluctantly be friendly'

As I does'nt use IE, I've no idea if their's any way to arguably tell it to use another typeface in this particular case..
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re:Unicode Chess Font? - 2006/03/08 14:39 Maybe this is of any use..
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