From: Frédéric Grosshans (frederic.grosshans@m4x.org)
Date: Sun Apr 03 2011 - 11:16:11 CDT
Le vendredi 01 avril 2011 à 19:10 +0100, Michael Everson a écrit :
> Proposal to encode additional playing card characters in the UCS
> http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4012.pdf
I have a few comments on this proposal.
1. PLAYING CARD FOOL
Your chart contains
1F0E0 🃠PLAYING CARD FOOL
• variously trump-0 or trump-22
• not a joker
but your text didn't explicit it. By reading your text, I was wondering
which joker could represent the French "excuse", before finding it in
your chart. You could also add an annotation in the chart at the 1F0F6
position (non existing trump-22), referring back to the 1F0E0 position,
similar to what already exists for the 2072 and 2073 positions
2. French Tarot
You can also add "French playing card sets (Tarot)" to the German and
Italian one. It is still widely played, at least until my generation
(born in the mid 1970's). Like in the German tradition, the esoteric
images are replaced by pastoral scenery on playing games (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_tarot for some examples). It is
actually a way to distinguish cartomancy decks from playing decks.
Playing tarot with a cartomancy deck, while possible, would feel very
strange for me...
The wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot is also an
interesting read for the ones interested by these Tarot cards
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