I like these proposed border-box charcters which where clearly missing in the box-drawing set (where they exist only when they pass through the center of a cell. However, unless they are are ujssed in monoxpaced fonts, I don't think that all of them have to match the same width as the checkers cells, notaby the 2 vertical and 4 corner ones which can clearly be narrower (only the 2 horizontal ones, top or bottom, need to match the cell).
Also, if a variation selector is used for a white or black square, the rendering should still extend the width the pieces drawn inside to center them in a square board cell. Pieces without these background selectors can still be using proportional width (for example in texts showing a game play positions). Note also that for draughts pieces, in French they are not called "homme" (=man) and "roi" (=king), but "pion" (=pawn) and "dame" (or "reine", both meaning "queen" in chess, draughts and card decks games: the "draught" game itself is named "dames" with the plural). Many draughts and chess players may use chess pieces to play draughts (if there's not enough king/queen in chess pieces, they can as well use other pieces except pawns). The board itself may be any suitable grid. Some will use or grains/small rocks for pawns and real money coins (white metal vs.yellow/red metal) for king/queen. In classrooms (where pieces are too frequently lost), children build their own pieces only with colored paper/carton and every player has in fact played with friends/family using such substitutes, and it is even easier and more friendly than playing now with two small smartphones/tablets with a connected app (those apps don't need Unicode encoding at all, they use their own graphics). 2017-04-01 19:24 GMT+02:00 Michael Everson <ever...@evertype.com>: > Variation Sequences have been implemented for a number of symbol > characters recently to make them useful for specialized purposes. > > Here is a proposal which solves a long-standing problem for an important > set of symbols in the UCS. > > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p9vga1dc2t02pqw/AABL4XwI-ZERDbnLJmvJJvtja?dl=0 > > Enjoy, > Michael Everson >