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Rein, let me point that UTF-8 is the encoding for the Unicode character set. Character set answers to question what characters are allowed, the encoding answers to the question how they are stored in bytes.

in PGN there is a section about character codes: http://www.saremba.de/chessgml/standards/pgn/pgn-complete.htm#c4.1 . It recommends to use only ASCII characters. This seems questionable to me, so I did not copy it into the PDN standard.

Read the section about character encodings.
The decision to ...

It seems to me that STRING values and COMMENT values should be allowed to contain Unicode characters.

That's good.


On the one hand I can understand that it is useful to restrict PDN to a single format like UTF-8. On the other hand I find it questionable to disallow ASCII files. I can't ...

What is your opinion on allowing different separators? E.g. in Russian draughts, I often see '-' for moves and ':' for captures, and in Thai draughts they use '-' for moves and captures. The proposal only allows ':' in the reading grammar, not in the writing grammar. Is this OK as far as the ...

As to character encodings.
We have several options to choose: ASCII, UTF-8, any other 1-byte per character codepages (cp1252, for Europe I guess), UTF-16, other N-byte per character codepages (UCS-2 but it seems to be deprecated almost everywhere).

If ASCII would go to the standard - the checkers ...

A word about FEN notation.
In russian checkers fields are named as follows:
a1, c1, e1, g1, b2, d2, ...

I have tried to specify the field by such a name, but PDN checker rejects this.
I think, there is a problem here. Moves are specified as c3-d4 f6-g5, and this is ok.

Another problem is that PDN ...