Unicode is a computing industry standard for the handling of fonts and symbols. Within it is a set of images depicting playing cards, and another depicting the French card suits.
Unicode 6.0 added images for: Minor Arcana Tarot, the 52 cards of the standard French deck, 4 Knights, a back of a card, and two for black and white (or red) jokers in the block U+1F0A0–1F0FF. Unicode 7.0 added a specific red joker and twenty-two generic trump cards with the reference description being not the Major Arcana used in cartomancy but the Tarot Nouveau used in tarot card games.
U+1F0CF.[3][4]
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Playing Cards block:
| Version | Final code points| Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document | |
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| 6.0 | U+1F0A0..1F0AE, 1F0B1..1F0BE, 1F0C1..1F0CF, 1F0D1..1F0DF| 59 | [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04163-n2760-dominoes.pdf L2/04-163]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2760.pdf N2760] | title=Proposal to encode dominoes and other game symbols in the UCS|date=2004-05-18|first=Michael|last=Everson|authorlink=Michael Everson}} | |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06288-game-cmts.pdf L2/06-288]}} | title=Comments on L2/04-163 - Domino tiles and other game symbols|date=2006-08-06|first=Karl|last=Pentzlin}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09025r2-emoji.pdf L2/09-025R2]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3582.pdf N3582][}}]| title=Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols|date=2009-03-05|first1=Markus|last1=Scherer|first2=Mark|last2=Davis|authorlink2=Mark Davis (Unicode)|first3=Kat|last3=Momoi|first4=Darick|last4=Tong|first5=Yasuo|last5=Kida|first6=Peter|last6=Edberg}} | |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09026r-emoji-proposed.pdf L2/09-026R]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3583.pdf N3583] | title=Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding|date=2009-02-06|first1=Markus|last1=Scherer|first2=Mark|last2=Davis|first3=Kat|last3=Momoi|first4=Darick|last4=Tong|first5=Yasuo|last5=Kida|first6=Peter|last6=Edberg}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09027r2-emoji-backgrnd.pdf L2/09-027R2]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3681.pdf N3681] | title=Emoji Symbols: Background Data|date=2009-09-17|first=Markus|last=Scherer}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09114-n3607-emoji.pdf L2/09-114]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3607.pdf N3607] | title=Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji|date=2009-04-06}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10089-n3777.pdf L2/10-089]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3777.pdf N3777] | title=KDDI Input on Emoji|date=2010-03-08}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10132-emojidata.pdf L2/10-132]}} | title=Emoji Symbols: Background Data|date=2010-04-27|first1=Markus|last1=Scherer|first2=Mark|last2=Davis|first3=Kat|last3=Momoi|first4=Darick|last4=Tong|first5=Yasuo|last5=Kida|first6=Peter|last6=Edberg}} |
| 7.0 | U+1F0BF, 1F0E0..1F0F5 | 23 | [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11095-n4012-playingcards.pdf L2/11-095]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4012.pdf N4012] | title=Proposal to encode additional playing card characters in the UCS|date=2011-04-01|first1=Michael|last1=Everson|first2=Karl|last2=Pentzlin}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11102r-tarot.pdf L2/11-102 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11102-tarot.txt txt]) | title=Clarification of Tarot cards|date=2011-04-06|first=Mark|last=Davis}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11216-n4089-playingcards.pdf L2/11-216]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4089.pdf N4089] | title=Proposal to disunify playing card and tarot card characters in the UCS|date=2011-05-31|first1=Michael|last1=Everson|first2=Karl|last2=Pentzlin}} |
1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org|title=Unicode character database|work=The Unicode Standard|accessdate=2016-07-09}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html|title=Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard|work=The Unicode Standard|accessdate=2016-07-09}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/|title=UTR #51: Unicode Emoji|publisher=Unicode Consortium|date=2019-02-04}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-data.txt|title=UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51|publisher=Unicode Consortium|date=2019-01-15}}
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