Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 15:56:00 09/10/03
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On September 10, 2003 at 09:05:39, Alastair Scott wrote: >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). It seems that I am in the minority here in wanting to get rid of the the use of a period of each White move number. >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. This was handled in the original discussions and the general agreement was to use English piece cahracter identifier letters as being the best compromise. Of course, non English language locales do use other piece identifires; there's no problem with that as long as the data remains within the locale and the resulting interoperatability compromise is acceptable. The same goes for the use of English names for the PGN tag name set. The bigger issue here is the use of Unicode for PGN tag *values*. This opens up a big can of worms as the feeling is that if we let Unicode (or similar) in the door for representing, say, players' names, then we might as well use it for everything else. But this will certainly break almost every PGN program currently in use.
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