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 -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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