Not really. Most people would not be able to type those in a simple way. Which sort of defeats the only purpose of the cbPiecesFromFEN function: to simplify things. People would even have difficulty remembering what non-ascii they would have to use for a given piece. Even with the ASCII alphabet that danger exists, which is why I try to make the assignment as straightforward as possible.
Not really. Most people would not be able to type those in a simple way. Which sort of defeats the only purpose of the cbPiecesFromFEN function: to simplify things. People would even have difficulty remembering what non-ascii they would have to use for a given piece. Even with the ASCII alphabet that danger exists, which is why I try to make the assignment as straightforward as possible.