[Dark_Lotus]

I have programmed a Blackjack game and what to enhance the 'graphics' of it a little bit. I want to show the card faces by inserting the heart, spade, diamond, and clover characters. How do I print these characters to the screen?

I tried this, but nothing comes up.

#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
printf("\n %c \n", 003);
return 0;
}

Where the 003 is, I thought thats where the Decimal code for the character went. This was just a guess, so forgive me if I was way off.

[Chuckit]

You have it right, except your character is nonsense. 003 means the character with the octal value 3, which in ASCII is "ETX - End Of Text." You'll either have to get the correct number equivalent for the character or just put the character itself there like so:

[codex]#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
printf("\n %c \n", 'c');
return 0;
}[/codex]

[Dark_Lotus]

Originally Posted by Chuckit 

You have it right, except your character is nonsense. 003 means the character with the octal value 3, which in ASCII is "ETX - End Of Text." You'll either have to get the correct number equivalent for the character or just put the character itself there like so:

[codex]#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
printf("\n %c \n", 'c');
return 0;
}[/codex]

[codex]
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int blah = 0x03;
printf("%c", blah);
printf("\n");
}[/codex]

This should work, however, the heart character does not show up. Are there some characters that the terminal cannot display?

[Chuckit]

I'm a bit confused as to why you're expecting a heart. Are you using some special font in your Terminal? Because ASCII 3 is ETX, not normally a heart character, so nothing should be showing up.

[WJMoore]

Its a heart in DOS, that char code won't display what you want in the Terminal, as you've seen. You want to use Unicode characters. These are UTF-8 sequences I got from the Character Palette. The following should help:

code:

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("\n%s\n", "\xE2\x99\xA5 \xE2\x99\xA6 \xE2\x99\xA0 \xE2\x99\xA3 ");
return 0;
}