From: Andreas St�tzner ([email protected])
Date: Tue Dec 07 2010 - 05:31:39 CST
Am 06.12.2010 um 06:04 schrieb Timothy S. Nelson:
> Hi all. What's the likelihood of a set of suit symbols for non-French-suited cards being included in future versions of Unicode?
Next to none.
Have you read the annotation of the 1F0A0-block? �These characters are used to represent the 52-card and 56-card variants of modern playing cards, as well as the 56-card Minor Arcana of the Western Tarot.�
The regional variants of card suits shall get treated as *stilistic* variants, to be handled on the font�s level. The scheme of the recently encoded playing card block can accommodate any set of cards. The French-style glyphs in the code charts are representative, not prescriptive. Replace them by German, Italian or any other vernacular glyphs, if needed.
There won�t be any encoding of Italic style letters and there won�t be any encoding of extra-style card suits. If one is requiring different sets at once, just make (or order) a font family with French, German, Swiss-German, Italian � as single fonts.
Mit freundlichen Gr��en,
Andreas St�tzner.
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