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@Enivex Enivex commented May 22, 2025

There's an ungodly number of these symbols, so I'd be surprised if I got everything right.

I mostly followed @MDLC01, though:

  • I used only black/white and black/red instead of having stroked/filled as aliases, since these carry an actual meaning here.
  • I opted to call the inverted pieces .inv instead of .b. I believe they are more common than the other rotated variants.
  • I used the names amazon, empress and princess for the fairy pieces
  • I also added the shogi pieces (koma)

There's also 4 symbols for draughts, but they don't seem like they fit under chess.

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IIUC, "koma" just means "piece", so I'm not sure whether it's descriptive enough.

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Enivex commented May 22, 2025

IIUC, "koma" just means "piece", so I'm not sure whether it's descriptive enough.

It means piece in Japanese, and it's in a submodule. I don't think there's much opportunity for confusion.

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Enivex commented May 22, 2025

I just realized that the black pawn also needs a text variation selector, since it can also be an emoji.

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Enivex commented Jun 20, 2025

Closing until the multi-character symbols situation is resolved.

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Reopening since the multi-character symbols situation has been resolved a while ago.

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The changelog needs to be updated now too (cf. #121 (review)).

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MDLC01 commented Oct 25, 2025

Note that Unicode also defines symbols used in chess notation, at least ten of which in Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows, as of Unicode 17.0.0.

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MDLC01 commented Oct 25, 2025

Additionally, Unicode 17.0.0 assigned four new codepoints under Chess Symbols (see the delta chart).

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