Interpret text code as image or custom symbol

[rich2005]

Please give your Operating System, it does help when giving suggestions.

You can input a unicode using shift-crtl-u which gives a underlined u character followed by a code.
For card characters see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_cards_in_Unicode

For Windows users first set the input mode to 'simple' 

   

Then it is shift-ctrl-u then the code then enter.  Depending on the font set the colour by selecting the character with the on canvas text tool.

   

Linux users, no need to set an input mode, same as above: 20 second animation https://i.imgur.com/X7icqr3.mp4