Chess Symbols
BlocknameChess Symbols
Rangestart1FA00
Rangeend1FA6F
Script 1Common
11 014
12 084
17 04
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:

VersionFinal code points[a]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
11.0U+1FA60..1FA6D14L2/10-368N3910"Proposal for Encoding Chinese Chess Symbol in the SMP", 2010-09-16
L2/10-463N3966"Re: Proposal for encoding Chinese chess symbols", 2010-11-05
L2/10-416RMoore, 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
L2/16-255N4748West, Andrew (2016-09-12), "Proposal to encode Xiangqi game symbols"
L2/16-270N4766Everson, 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
L2/16-325Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "Consensus 149-C8", "UTC #149 Minutes"
L2/17-161N4794Suignard, Michel (2017-05-08), "China T3, UK T7. Sub-clause 33", "Draft disposition of comments on PDAM1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition"
L2/17-103Moore, 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
L2/17-353Anderson, Deborah & Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "D. Chess Symbols", "WG2 Consent Docket"
L2/17-362Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C5", "UTC #153 Minutes"
12.0U+1FA00..1FA5384L2/16-293Wallace, Garth (2016-10-26), "Proposal to Encode Heterodox Chess Symbols"
L2/16-342Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-11-07), "13. Chess", "Recommendations to UTC #149 November 2016 on Script Proposals"
L2/17-034R4N4784RWallace, Garth & Everson, Michael (2017-03-28), "Revised Proposal to Encode Heterodox Chess Symbols in the UCS"
L2/17-153Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "22. Chess symbols", "Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals"
L2/17-103Moore, 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
L2/17-362Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C15", "UTC #153 Minutes"
17.0U+1FA54..1FA574L2/24-020Bala, Gavin Jared & Miller, Kirk (2023-12-22), "Unicode request for shatranj symbols"
L2/24-013RAnderson, 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"
L2/24-006Constable, Peter (2024-01-31), "Consensus 178-C35", "UTC #178 Minutes"

See also

References

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ "Chapter 22: Symbols". The Unicode Standard, Version 12.0. Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. March 2019. ISBN 978-1-936213-22-1.
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