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
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
(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/>
Does comment #1 help to resolve the issue?
If you can provide the information requested in comment #3, please add it.
Yes, thank you, the issue was resolved. Indeed, I was looking for chess symbols in the wrong block (as was suggested in Comment 1).
Thanks for the update; changing status.