On 4/3/2017 5:12 AM, Michael Everson
wrote:
I'm not convinced that it is. A player starts with two non-interchangeable bishops. <U+2657, U+FE01> could only refer the white bishop that is restricted to black squares. That's a semantic difference.Surely not. If it were, we would encode WHITE BISHOP THAT STAYS ON THE WHITE SQUARES and WHITE BISHOP THAT STAYS ON BLACK SQUARES and we would encode WHITE KNIGHT THAT MOVES FROM WHITE SQUARES TO BLACK SQUARES and WHITE KNIGHT THAT MOVES FROM BLACK SQUARES TO WHITE SQUARES. The non-interchangeability of bishops is a fact about chess rules. It has no business being "encoded" on the character level. Let me quote again from my earlier message:
Let's not mix levels here. A./ |
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