[XeTeX] Status of babel and polyglossia in xelatex

[Michiel Kamermans]

Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Yes, there too. But also in some special cases when symbols are
> involved which are not in unicode (e.g. chess symbols). 
> But don't forget that unicode is an encoding too! So even if you
> type only simple text there is at least one font encoding involved
> (fontspec uses the name EU1 in this case). 
>   

On a technical note, chess symbols are in the Miscellaneous Symbols 
block, on codepoints U+2654 through U+265F, and have been there since at 
least Unicode 3.2 =)

- Mike