On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:04:53 -0400
Thomas George <debianl...@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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