You know, if all of those symbols were in some font set and had text
labels attached to them that could speak when a screen reader was used a
whole bunch of playing card applications would suddenly become accessible
for screen reader users.
--
Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com>
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soap, ballot, jury, and amo.
Please use in that order."
Ed Howdershelt 1940.
On Mon, 27 Mar 2023, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:04:53 -0400
> Thomas George <debianlist@mailfence.com> wrote:
>
> > I am amazed that the playing card symbols spade, heart, diamond and
> > club don't appear any of the collections in my Debian Buster
> > programs. I can insert them in the text I type by entering
> > CTRL-SHIFT-Uunicode but if this text in a Thunderbird email to a
> > friend he receives only the unicode.
>
> What do you mean by "CTRL-SHIFT-Uunicode"? What do you mean by "he
> receives only the unicode"?
>
> Since you are on this list, I assume you are running a recent version
> of Debian and Thunderbird. The playing card symbols are unicode
> characters, the same as A, ;, or {. They just aren't on your
> keyboard. You even have your choice of black ? or white ?. There are
> also characters for individual playing cards: ?.
>
> There are a number of ways to get them. One way is to look
> them up in another program, such as gucharmap (in the package of the
> same name) and copy them to your email, which is what I just did.
>
> Once you send your email, displaying those characters is your
> recipient's problem. If he doesn't have the characters to display,
> chances are his display software will show some place-holder. I
> conjecture that what you mean by "he receives only the unicode" is that
> he sees a placeholder instead of the character.
>
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