| Blockname | Chess Symbols |
|---|---|
| Rangestart | 1FA00 |
| Rangeend | 1FA6F |
| Script 1 | Common |
| 11 0 | 14 |
| 12 0 | 84 |
| 17 0 | 4 |
| Note | [1][2] |
Chess Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for fairy chess and related notations beyond the basic Western chess symbols (U+2654 to U+265F) in the Miscellaneous Symbols block, as well as symbols representing game pieces for xiangqi (Chinese chess).[3]
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Chess Symbols block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.0 | U+1FA60..1FA6D | 14 | L2/10-368 | N3910 | "Proposal for Encoding Chinese Chess Symbol in the SMP", 2010-09-16 |
| L2/10-463 | N3966 | "Re: Proposal for encoding Chinese chess symbols", 2010-11-05 | |||
| L2/10-416R | Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "C.15", "UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes" | ||||
| N3992 | "R.O. Korea's Comments on "Proposal for Encoding Chinese Chess Symbol in the SMP (WG2 N3910)"", 2011-03-03 | ||||
| N3903 (pdf, doc) | "M57.28 (Chinese Chess symbols)", "Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57", 2011-03-31 | ||||
| N4103 | "11.8 Comments on N3910 "Proposal for Encoding Chinese Chess Symbols"", "Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58", 2012-01-03 | ||||
| L2/16-255 | N4748 | West, Andrew (2016-09-12), "Proposal to encode Xiangqi game symbols" | |||
| L2/16-270 | N4766 | Everson, Michael (2016-09-28), "Recommendations for encoding Xiàngqí game symbols" | |||
| N4873R (pdf, doc) | "10.3.10", "Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65", 2018-03-16 | ||||
| L2/16-325 | Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "Consensus 149-C8", "UTC #149 Minutes" | ||||
| L2/17-161 | N4794 | Suignard, Michel (2017-05-08), "China T3, UK T7. Sub-clause 33", "Draft disposition of comments on PDAM1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition" | |||
| L2/17-103 | Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "E.2.3 Xiangqi game symbols", "UTC #151 Minutes" | ||||
| N4953 (pdf, doc) | "M66.03d", "Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66", 2018-03-23 | ||||
| L2/17-353 | Anderson, Deborah & Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "D. Chess Symbols", "WG2 Consent Docket" | ||||
| L2/17-362 | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C5", "UTC #153 Minutes" | ||||
| 12.0 | U+1FA00..1FA53 | 84 | L2/16-293 | Wallace, Garth (2016-10-26), "Proposal to Encode Heterodox Chess Symbols" | |
| L2/16-342 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-11-07), "13. Chess", "Recommendations to UTC #149 November 2016 on Script Proposals" | ||||
| L2/17-034R4 | N4784R | Wallace, Garth & Everson, Michael (2017-03-28), "Revised Proposal to Encode Heterodox Chess Symbols in the UCS" | |||
| L2/17-153 | Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "22. Chess symbols", "Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals" | ||||
| L2/17-103 | Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "E.2.1", "UTC #151 Minutes" | ||||
| N4953 (pdf, doc) | "M66.07j", "Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66", 2018-03-23 | ||||
| L2/17-362 | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C15", "UTC #153 Minutes" | ||||
| 17.0 | U+1FA54..1FA57 | 4 | L2/24-020 | Bala, Gavin Jared & Miller, Kirk (2023-12-22), "Unicode request for shatranj symbols" | |
| L2/24-013R | Anderson, Deborah; Goregaokar, Manish; Kučera, Jan; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2024-01-22), "13. Shatranj symbols", "Recommendations to UTC #178 January 2024 on Script Proposals" | ||||
| L2/24-006 | Constable, Peter (2024-01-31), "Consensus 178-C35", "UTC #178 Minutes" | ||||
See also
References
- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Chapter 22: Symbols". The Unicode Standard, Version 12.0. Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. March 2019. ISBN 978-1-936213-22-1.
- ^ final