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Garth Wallace wrote on Fri, Nov 18, 2016 06:27 PM EST:

Unicode has responded to the proposal. Their response is section 13 of this document. To sum up: they were receptive to the idea of encoding additional chess piece symbols, but skeptical of the particular set that was proposed, and requested a revised proposal. They thought that several of the pieces did not have enough evidence of use in text in the examples provided.

Unfortunately, that includes all of the variantist pieces: the fers and elephant, the joker, and the knighted compounds. They specifically say that the shatranj pieces should be taken out of the proposal to be considered separately. And they made it clear that they will not accept examples of use in diagrams as implicit evidence of a need in plain text, so only samples of figurine notation will be acceptable.

So I've been trying to pull together more evidence, with the help of the WFCC. So far, I've found examples of the knight-bishop and knight-rook in figurine notation, but when it comes to the amazon and joker I'm coming up short.


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