Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a TEXT CONSOLE - no GUI running - so you
could play cards.
Even better would be a networked card game. s for shuffle the cards, d for
deal (with prompt for how many people), w for draw cards, I guess.
David
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:13 PM Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> wrote:
> 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>
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> 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 <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.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
