Automatic playing cards suit replacement on Android browser?
android, browser, css, html
Solution
I opened the following site on my HTC One X (with Android 4.3) http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2660/index.htm and your link, and I could see the ♠ character perfectly, no substitution. So it's not an HTC thing nor an Android thing. Maybe you have something installed in your device that causes it? A custom keyboard? A browser extension?
Problem
I noticed a strange behavior on my recently upgraded HTC One (4.3) - Whenever I use one of the suits ASCII character (heart, spade, club, diamond), the browser automatically replaces them to a card like design. I attached a screenshot from the phone and the link to the page where you can see for yourself. I only saw it on my phone and not any others, on debugger it looks like plain ASCII and no CSS design can be found. Important to say - It does not happen on Chrome for Android, but only on the default browser. ``` <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> </head> <body> <h1>♠♣♥♦</h1> </body> </html> ``` Has anyone encountered this behavior, and more important, how to disable it? Example page Screenshot from mobile