I tried using "\definefontfallback[mainface][rm][Symbola][range=playingcards,force=yes]" and the PLAYING CARD ACE OF SPADES still didn't show up in the output.

I'm using " ConTeXt ver: 2020.09.03 20:03 LMTX fmt: 2020.9.3 int: english/english",

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 9:05 AM Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

T. Kurt Bond schrieb am 09.09.2020 um 21:40:
> I want to use the Unicode Character PLAYING CARD ACE OF SPADES in a
> ConTeXt document. Because of the way the source document is created it
> has to be as the actual unicode character itself, rather than a
> reference to a specific character in a specific font.
>
> Here's what I've tried, but it doesn't work:
>
> \definefontfallback[mainface][rm][Symbola][preset=range:playingcards,force=yes]

Try

\definefontfallback[mainface][rm][Symbola][range=playingcards,force=yes]

The "range:..." presets are just a comma separated list of name which
are passed to the range key.

Wolfgang