On Mon 27 Mar 2023 at 21:20:45 (+0200), Siard wrote: > Charles Curley: > > Thomas George: > > > > > 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"? > > To type ♠ , for example: > > - hold Ctrl+Shift > - type U2660 > - release Ctrl+Shift > > A slight variation, which I prefer: > > - type Ctrl+Shift+U , keep nothing pressed > - type 2660 > - type Return
Not the most obvious choice, but ♥ is already defined in X, using your Compose Key: <Multi_key> <less> <3> : "♥" U2665 # BLACK HEART SUIT If you're not familiar with this notation, you can use it as a pattern, and place many more of your own definitions in ~/.XCompose. Start the file with include "%S/en_US.UTF-8/Compose" (locale as appropriate) or you'll lose the ones already defined by the system. If you want them in VCs too, then adding them to /etc/console-setup/remap.inc is more appropriate: it has a different syntax and is trickier to set up. Cheers, David.
