Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-28 Thread debian-user
Richmond wrote: > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes: > > > >> I tried this in rxvt(-unicode), xterm, and lxterm (which is > >> apparently part of the xterm package -- never heard of it > >> before!). > > > > It's lxterminal, not lxterm, and it's part of LXDE so I'm surprised > > if it's

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-28 Thread Richmond
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes: >> I tried this in rxvt(-unicode), xterm, and lxterm (which is apparently >> part of the xterm package -- never heard of it before!). > > It's lxterminal, not lxterm, and it's part of LXDE so I'm surprised if > it's bundled with xterm. > lxterm and lxterminal

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 05:19:09PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Interstingly, though, in rxvt-unicode, if I only press Ctrl-Shift and > > skip the U, a small region of the terminal window (lower left corner, > > which is annoyingly right where the cursor is)

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-28 Thread debian-user
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 08:45:18PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > wrote: > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Just to be clear, are you using some kind of Desktop Environment > > > specific means of entering these Unicode characters? I don't know > > > what

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-28 Thread Siard
Charles Curley: > Siard: > > > To type ♠ , for example: > > > > - hold Ctrl+Shift > > - type U2660 > > - release Ctrl+Shift > > Nice to know about, but it requires knowing the UTF code for the > characters you want. That's a bit like trying to navigate the Internet > with IP addresses instead

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread tomas
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 04:23:34PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:20:45 +0200 > Siard wrote: > > > To type ♠ , for example: > > > > - hold Ctrl+Shift > > - type U2660 > > - release Ctrl+Shift > > Nice to know about, but it requires knowing the UTF code for the >

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread davidson
On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 Jude DaShiell wrote: [My mail client is] alpine for now. If I can't fix it I'll have to switch and that's alpine running on panix.com. I'll look through the configuration and find what I can. I read most email in a VT (ie, a linux console) with alpine. And I set emacs as

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Max Nikulin
On 28/03/2023 03:10, Greg Wooledge wrote: In all 3 terminals, Ctrl-Shift-U simply acts like Ctrl-U. If there's already text typed at the bash prompt, it's all erased. If there's no text typed at the bash prompt, it beeps. It may depend on X inputMethod setting in xterm, whether ibus or some

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread songbird
Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > I tried this in rxvt(-unicode), xterm, and lxterm (which is apparently > part of the xterm package -- never heard of it before!). > > In all 3 terminals, Ctrl-Shift-U simply acts like Ctrl-U. If there's > already text typed at the bash prompt, it's all erased. If

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Thomas George
Should have included ♠ ♡ ♢ ♣ The unicodes are 2660, 2661, 2662 and 2663 On 3/27/23 12:04, Thomas George 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

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Thomas George
2:04:53 -0400 > Thomas George 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 >

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Thomas George
as George 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-Uunic

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:20:45 +0200 Siard wrote: > To type ♠ , for example: > > - hold Ctrl+Shift > - type U2660 > - release Ctrl+Shift Nice to know about, but it requires knowing the UTF code for the characters you want. That's a bit like trying to navigate the Internet with IP addresses

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
ere 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 wrote: > >

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
that's alpine for now. If I can't fix it I'll have to switch and that's alpine running on panix.com. I'll look through the configuration and find what I can. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 04:10:37PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I'm using espeak-ng and reading this message with the symbols in it only > generated silence when trying to read the symbols. I'm using utf-8 here > and don't have any kind of font chosen or set so far as I know. On my end > all of

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
: > > > 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 Thunderbi

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 08:45:18PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Just to be clear, are you using some kind of Desktop Environment > > specific means of entering these Unicode characters? I don't know > > what CTRL-SHIFT-Uunicode means. If I try it here, it

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread David Wright
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 > > > prog

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread debian-user
Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 02:13:35PM -0400, Jude DaShiell 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 >

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread debian-user
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 12:04:53PM -0400, Thomas George 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

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Siard
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

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 02:13:35PM -0400, Jude DaShiell 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

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
fense 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 wrote: > > > I am amazed that the playing card symbols spade, heart, diamond and

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread gene heskett
On 3/27/23 13:51, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:04:53 -0400 Thomas George 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

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:04:53 -0400 Thomas George 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

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 12:04:53PM -0400, Thomas George 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 th

Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread 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. I