Re: lib/44110 (curses does not support all four playing card suit characters)

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/44110; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: blymn%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: lib/44110 (curses does not support all four playing card suit
 characters)
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 00:00:53 +0000

 On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 06:45:36AM +0000, blymn%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
  > Synopsis: curses does not support all four playing card suit characters
  > 
  > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
  > State-Changed-By: blymn%NetBSD.org@localhost
  > State-Changed-When: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 06:45:35 +0000
  > State-Changed-Why:
  > Closing this, curses can't output something a terminal doesn't support.
 
 What's the state of wide characters and unicode output? It appears
 that the glyphs wanted are Unicode code points 0x2660, 0x2663, 0x2665,
 and 0x2666. (Or maybe 0x2661-2.) And also there's a full card set
 starting at 0x1F0A1.
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_cards_in_Unicode
 
 If these can be made to work, that would definitely be sufficient.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost