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Re: X Windows Fonts with Symbols?



On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 08:50:10PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I would like to write some text which includes the symbols for Spades, 
> Hearts, Diamonds and Clubs.  I know that some years ago I had a word 
> processor with fonts which included these symbols but now I can't find 
> any.  I used xfontsel to examine the symbol and dingbats fonts with no 
> success.  Thinking I was missing something I wrote a couple of lines of 
> C++ to display the ascii characters from 40 to 255 but it didn't show 
> anything beyond character 127 - presumably because I haven't yet figured 
> out how to change fonts in the program.
> 
> I'll struggle with this some more tomorrow but if I am missing something 
> obvious I would appreciate being pointed in the right direction.  
> Specifically, I have started learning Perl-Tk from the widget program 
> and the man page and I would like to write text on the canvas widget 
> which includes the playing card symbols.
> 
> Tom George
Hi Tom,
I am aware of 2 choices: 'symbols' font or using UTF-8 unicode symbols.
cheers,
Kev
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