Posted by Ben C on 03/30/07 15:29

On 2007-03-30, Cogito <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote:
> Just showed the program to someone who asked me "what is this funny
> queen"? Turns out they do not have the "Arial Unicode MS" font on
> their system. (They are on Windows XP while I am on Windows Vista). Is
> the font part of Windows or part of Office?

I'm sure someone already explained this, but you're much better off
using images for the chess pieces because you have no control over what
fonts users have on their systems, and fonts with glyphs for chess
pieces are a bit of a specialized taste.

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