From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 18:09:01 CDT
John Hudson asked:
> I would
> like to know what the presumed purpose of U+2616 and U+2617 is.
In Unicode? To map to JIS X 0213. You need to ask the JSC what *their*
intent was in adding these two characters to the Japanese standard.
> Not so. Both sides has four generals: two 'gold' and two 'silver'. The gold and silver
> generals differ from each other, but each side's pieces are entirely identical.
Except for orientation on the board, of course.
>
> By the way, if any Unicoders play shogi,
I do -- or used to, a number of years ago.
> I could bring my travel set next time I come to
> the conference.
Unfortunately, I generally attend the UTC meetings and not the conferences,
so our distribution is complementary.
--Ken
P.S. Regarding the dominoes per se, I'm coming down on the side of
those arguing (as John Cowan has) that the *orientation* of the bones
is not significant in the plain text usages. The *characters* to
encode here should be for each distinct bone, regardless of orientation.
Layout orientation can be handled by other means. I also concur with
John that going beyond the double-twelve (for now) is just speculative
and not supported by actual use in dominoes books. This is not a
case where things are made simpler by encoding a set of 724 symbols.
With only a canonical orientation of each distinct *bone* required for
the basic characters, and 0..12 = 13, implies (13 x 12)/2 = 78
combinations + 1 for the back of a tile, you just need 79 symbols for
a core set. *That* would be a far more palatable proposal than the
current one.
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