Re: n4012 Proposal to encode additional playing card characters in the UCS [was: Three modest proposals]

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sun Apr 03 2011 - 14:17:41 CDT

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    On 3 Apr 2011, at 17:16, Frédéric Grosshans wrote:

    > Le vendredi 01 avril 2011 à 19:10 +0100, Michael Everson a écrit :
    >
    >> Proposal to encode additional playing card characters in the UCS
    >> http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4012.pdf
    >
    > 1. PLAYING CARD FOOL
    > Your chart contains
    > 1F0E0 🃠 PLAYING CARD FOOL
    > • variously trump-0 or trump-22
    > • not a joker
    > but your text didn't explicit it. By reading your text, I was wondering which joker could represent the French "excuse", before finding it in your chart.

    "L'Excuse" in French card playing is The Fool, according to the Wikipedia article.

    Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

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