Garth Wallace wrote on Mon, Sep 17, 2018 05:57 PM UTC:
An update on this: the proposal was ultimately accepted. The final proposal mostly covers symbols from the fairy chess problemist tradition (e.g. rotated pieces), but does also include the knight-rook, knight-bishop, and knight-queen compound symbols. The characters are currently planned to be added to Unicode 12.0, which IIRC is scheduled to be published in March 2019, in the new "Chess Symbols" block (U+1FA00–U+1FA6F) that was added in Unicode 11.0 and currently includes symbols for Xiangqi.
An update on this: the proposal was ultimately accepted. The final proposal mostly covers symbols from the fairy chess problemist tradition (e.g. rotated pieces), but does also include the knight-rook, knight-bishop, and knight-queen compound symbols. The characters are currently planned to be added to Unicode 12.0, which IIRC is scheduled to be published in March 2019, in the new "Chess Symbols" block (U+1FA00–U+1FA6F) that was added in Unicode 11.0 and currently includes symbols for Xiangqi.