I am developing a chess engine in C#/Unity and want to print the board on a nice format. Preferably I want to print with some Unicode pieces but they end up making the board uneven, see image below:

The same seems to go for normal numbers since each row starts slightly off one another, row 1 starts more left than the others for example.

Why does my Debug.Log/prints end up like this, and how can I print them so that each character takes up the same amount of space?

EDIT: Here is the code I use to Debug.Log the board if that helps:

public static void PrintBitboard(ulong bitboard)
{
    string zero = " 0 ";
    string one = " 1 ";

    string printString = "";

    // Loop through all squares and print a 1 if piece and 0 if not a piece on the square
    for (int row = 0; row < 8; row  )
    {
        // Add numbering on the left side
        printString  = (8 - row)   "  ";

        for (int col = 0; col < 8; col  )
        {
            int currentSquare = row * 8   col;
            printString  = BitOperations.GetBit(bitboard, currentSquare) != 0 ? one : zero;
        }

        // Change to new row
        printString  = "\n";
    }

    // Print bottom letters
    printString  = "\n"   "     a  b  c  d  e  f  g  h";

    // Send message to the console
    Debug.Log(printString);
}

CodePudding user response：

What you are looking for is not "unicode" but

(in both I had to tricks a bit since I don't know what BitOperations implementation you are using)