C++: Printing ASCII Heart and Diamonds With Platform Independent

Question

I\'m developing a card playing game and would like to print out the symbol for hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs. My target platform will be Linux.

In Windows, I k

Answer 1

It's not a question of the library, it's a question of the codepage of the font you're using.

• read about Code page (what you used on Windows, are actually Control Characters)
• check the ASCII table

If the font used for the terminal you're running on doesn't have hearts and diamonds in it's current code page, no library will help you -- you'd have to use graphics.

For further reading, I'd try to find it maybe in Unicode Tables -- however, unicode terminals are rare... And even if you have a Unicode font, there's no guarantee that it will have the card-images in it.

Bottom line: it all depends on the font, and there's no guaranteed portable way to achieve it without suppling your own gylphs.