On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 09:12:42PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > 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 > -- Thanks, Kev. I rewrote my character display program in Perl where I was able to select different fonts. In the font Symbol I found characters 199 -202 were Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts and Spades. Amazingly -to me at least - xfontsel shows none of these characters although it does display some of the subsequent special characters. Tom
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