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Small Basic - Characters for Games

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NonkiTakahashi
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Feb 13, 2019
First published on MSDN on Aug 29, 2016

Authored by Nonki Takahashi


There are some characters that can be used to create game programs.  Have fun with useful characters!

Wingdings and Webdings Fonts


Wingdings and Webdings fonts have graphical glyph in them.  Sample program ID is QZS270 .


Miscellaneous Symbols


There are Miscellaneous Symbols in Unicode U+2600 to U+26FF.  Sample program ID is RPZ143-2 .


Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP)


In Unicode, U+10000 to U+1FFFF are called Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP).  SMP has such as Mahjong Tiles, Domino Tiles, Playing Cards and so on.  Program FSQ891-0 is Mahjong Tiles sample.



Program QBS151-0 is Playing Cards sample.



Note that SMP is not supported by Text.GetCharacter() or other Text operations.  So each SMP character must be defined as literal.

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