Brion, since you quoted it to someone else, you read my previous post about what is wrong with your quick and dirty patch.
You chose not to ask or inform me beforehand, so that I could explain once again (you were at the Frankfurt presentation) what makes unicode upgrade more than a one line patch. You chose not to reply to my wikitech post (unoffensive I would say) which was cc'ed to you.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-November/032649.html
Too bad you seem to have time only for a halfbaked solution and then forget about it.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Timeline_History_of_Chess... for an example of the mess you caused.
And yes, I am pissed off. I don't know what I did to deserve this inconsiderate behaviour.
Erik Zachte