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Subject: Re: Ten years later: revising EPD/FEN/PGN

Author: Alastair Scott

Date: 06:05:39 09/10/03

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On September 09, 2003 at 18:33:22, Steven Edwards wrote:

>2. Deprecation of the use of a period of each White move number.  The use of a
>period here has little, if any, need and just consumes space.

I don't agree; this would make PGN less readable by (human) eye, something I do
quite frequently. (It is a standard whose output doesn't look like that of a
standard, if you know what I mean).

One big omission in all the standards, which I'm amazed nobody else seems to
have mentioned, is internationalisation (including Unicode support). The general
assumption is that the piece letters will be English piece letters.

Alastair

• Re: Ten years later: revising EPD/FEN/PGN Steven Edwards 15:56:00 09/10/03
  • Re: Ten years later: revising EPD/FEN/PGN Dave Gomboc 16:19:32 09/10/03
    • Re: Ten years later: revising EPD/FEN/PGN Steven Edwards 16:28:41 09/10/03
      • Re: Ten years later: revising EPD/FEN/PGN Dave Gomboc 00:45:50 09/12/03
        • Re: Ten years later: revising EPD/FEN/PGN Steven Edwards 03:51:45 09/12/03

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