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From: Mark Davis
Date: 04/06/2011 01:41 PM
Subject: Disunify Tarot cards

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Any unification of playing cards with tarot cards is simply a mistake. 
While they are historically related, they don't pass the legibility test, 
any more than Greek and Latin scripts as a whole do, or Latin and Russian 
do.

That is, someone who meant to send a message with a PLAYING CARD JACK OF 
SPADES would and should expect that the receiver would see just that, and 
not a Page of Swords. The same for someone sending a Page of Swords; they 
would and should expect that a receiver would see that, and not a Jack of 
Spades.

The only text in the standard that would need to be changed appears to be:

A few annotations on 
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-6.0/U60-1F0A0.pdf, and just for 
one suit: 1F0AB-E

In Chapter 15

Playing Cards: U+1F0A0–U+1F0FF
These characters are used to represent the 52-card deck most commonly used 
today, and
the 56-card deck used in some European games; the latter includes a Knight 
in addition to
Jack, Queen, and King. These cards map completely to the Minor Arcana of 
the Western
Tarot from which they derive, and are unified with the latter. Also 
included are a generic
card back and two Jokers. U+1F0CF  playing card black joker is used in one 
of the Japanese cell phone core emoji sets; its presentation may be in 
color and need not be black.