Re: Proposal to encode dominoes and other game symbols

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 21:11:43 CDT

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    Michael Everson wrote:

    > Here. Chew on this. :-)
    >
    > N2760
    > Proposal to encode dominoes and other game symbols
    > Michael Everson
    > 2004-05-18
    > http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2760.pdf

    This could get out of hand very quickly. Chinese and Japanese (shogi) chess pieces?
    Chaturanga pieces? Is there really a *plain-text* need for this stuff? At what point is it
    more practical to say 'use a graphic'?

    John Hudson 

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