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
Jokers in Solitaire Jokers in Solitaire Generally, the Joker is left out of solitaire card games as in many others of its type. But there are variations of solitaire games where a Joker does take part, most often as a wild card. When played in a game of Forty Thieves, the Joker is placed on the foundations while the natural card is unavailable. Any applicable cards are placed over the Joker. When the natural card becomes available, it replaces the Joker, which in turn is placed on the top of the foundation pile. When the Joker is placed on an empty foundation, it