Bug 411658

Summary: Chess Symbols not displaying correctly for any font
Product: [Applications] kcharselect Reporter: igoryd85
Component: generalAssignee: Christoph Feck <cfeck>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: minor CC: lars.dieckow
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 19.08.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description igoryd85 2019-09-06 22:18:06 UTC 
SUMMARY
Chess Symbols not displaying correctly for any font, getting only squares (though in konsole, for example, they display like normal when using the same font).

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open kcharselect
2. Select 'Symbols' in 'Select a category' list menu
3. Select 'Chess Symbols' in 'Select a block to be displayed' list menu 

OBSERVED RESULT
Chess symbols displaying as squares, as if not supported by the font being used.


EXPECTED RESULT
Chess symbols having appearance of actual chess pieces.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.61.0
Qt Version: 5.13.0
Kernel Version: 5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2019-09-07 11:14:31 UTC 
Please try block Symbols > "Miscellanous Symbols". Chess symbols are at position U+2654 ... U+265F.

The new "Chess Symbols" block at U+1FA00 contains heterodox chess variety symbols, which you probably do not want.

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1FA00.pdf
Comment 2 Lars DIECKOW 2019-09-11 11:27:51 UTC 
(In reply to igoryd85 from comment #0)
> Chess Symbols not displaying correctly for any font, getting only squares
This is not an application bug. None of the fonts you have installed contains glyphs for these symbols. This is not surprising, since the assignment in Unicode is recent and font authors need time to catch up. Remedy: install a font that contains them, e.g. Symbola 12. <http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/>
Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2019-09-24 11:30:25 UTC 
Does comment #1 help to resolve the issue?
Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2019-10-24 08:06:31 UTC 
If you can provide the information requested in comment #3, please add it.
Comment 5 igoryd85 2019-10-24 17:22:27 UTC 
Yes, thank you, the issue was resolved. Indeed, I was looking for chess symbols in the wrong block (as was suggested in Comment 1).
Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2019-10-25 04:48:35 UTC 
Thanks for the update; changing status.