I’m trying to make a 2-player chess game in C that would work simply in terminal. I had a lot of problems with fonts, so I just found a good looking ( most importantly – monospaced ( width of glyphs is the same ) ) font and just added chess symbols to LucidaConsole font using FontForge.

I changed symbols that I knew for sure I wouldn’t need in game.

symbols from 192 to 217 are changed

I’ve made an array of strings :

char board[64][4] = {
    "È","Ö","É","Ó","Æ","Õ","Ê","Ô",
    "×","Ë","×","Ë","×","Ë","×","Ë",
    "Ø","Ù","Ø","Ù","Ø","Ù","Ø","Ù",
    "Ù","Ø","Ù","Ø","Ù","Ø","Ù","Ø",
    "Ø","Ù","Ø","Ù","Ø","Ù","Ø","Ù",
    "Ù","Ø","Ù","Ø","Ù","Ø","Ù","Ø",
    "Å","Ñ","Å","Ñ","Å","Ñ","Å","Ñ",
    "Î","Ä","Ï","Á","Ì","Ã","Ð","Â"
};

Then in the terminal I was expecting it to look like a normal chess board, but instead this is what I’ve got :

failed attempt to display a chess board

Also I can actually write them by hand using codes from Alt+0192 to Alt+0217 :

chess symbols in terminal

I’ll do the coding part somehow, but how do I make those symbols to show in terminal ?