Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 16:28:41 09/10/03
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On September 10, 2003 at 19:19:32, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On September 10, 2003 at 18:56:00, Steven Edwards wrote: >>On September 10, 2003 at 09:05:39, Alastair Scott wrote: >>>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. > >Yes, but that was 10 years ago! :-) Longer actually, as SAN was done prior to PGN. There was the suggestion to abandon English tag names in favor of Latin or even Loglan. Although I took a few years of the former and am a fan of both, I have somehow resisted implementing either of them. But a Latin or Loglan scheme would have the advantage of pleasing everyone to an equal (but negative) extent.
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