Den 2017-04-04 00:35, skrev "Michael Everson" <ever...@evertype.com>:
>> What I am saying is that the glyphs for the two new variants you are >> proposing need to harmonise with the block elements such as U+2581 >> LOWER ONE EIGHTH BLOCK. > > No in a chess font the font designer has to draw those block-element > characters differently, to harmonize with the > >> That requires uniform width *for those variants*. That is a key part of the >> glyph family's essence. > > In their original usage in graphic terminals, sure. And some people still > emulate those, and when they use those characters they draw them for that > purpose. In current ASCII-based chess-fonts, a set of characters is used to > draw a line (of one kind or another) around the board, and when I looked for > Unicode characters to map to these, the block elements were the ones that had > the right structure, since they were high and low and left and right in the em > square. > >> There is no such requirement on the glyphs for normal text use as at present. > > There is **in a chess font** if you want to be able to draw a box around the > chessboard. I'm not too happy about this. Maybe have VSs applied also to the chess box drawing chars? /Kent K