From: Timothy S. Nelson (wayland@wayland.id.au)
Date: Sun Dec 05 2010 - 23:04:56 CST
Hi all. What's the likelihood of a set of suit symbols for
non-French-suited cards being included in future versions of Unicode? The link
below illustrates the symbols that would be useful.
http://www.pagat.com/com/cardsttf.html
We already have suits for French-suited playing cards (Spades, Hearts,
Diamonds, Clubs), but not for Latin-suited (Swords, Cups, Coins, Clubs),
Swiss-German suited (Shields, Roses, Bells, Acorns) or German-suited (Leaves,
Hearts, Bells, Acorns). Most of the other relevant symbols (like stars) are
available, but a few (I think especially Circled Black Star) are not.
The font at the link above was used for the Penguin Book of Card Games,
so at least someone thought it was useful. A warning to all, though, that the
font above is most definitely not a Unicode font.
I presume the next step would be to write a proposal, but I thought I'd
make a quick enquiry first -- if you can tell me now that it's a no-go, that
would save me days or weeks of my life.
:)
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