Playing cards in Unicode Playing cards in Unicode 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. The Miscellaneous Symbols block contains the following, at U+2660–2667: 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
French playing cards was created in Stralsund from a Hamburg derivative. It is often erroneously called the Berlin pattern. The crownless queens' hairstyles reflect the Biedermeier fashions of the day. They are usually in decks of 32 cards with the twos to sixes missing since skat, Germany's most popular card game, does not require a full deck. Decks of 36 cards (with the sixes) are for jass and tapp, a game played in Baden-Württemberg. Decks of 52 cards usually include three jokers but Zwickern decks have six jokers. The French-Swiss pattern shares the same descent from the North-German pattern's Hamburg parent but their