> On 3 Apr 2017, at 17:18, Asmus Freytag <asm...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > 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.
We agree. :-) > It has no business being "encoded" on the character level. We agree. :-) Michael Everson
