Re: include unicode chars in TeX/LaTeX documents

[Antonio Olivares]

On Monday, March 19, 2018, 3:41:50 PM CDT, Andras Simon  wrote:

2018-03-19 19:07 GMT+01:00, François Patte
:
> Here is MWE:
>
> \documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
>
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \newfontfamily{\uni}{Unifont}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> {\uni%
> \symbol{"26BD}
> }
>
> \end{document}
>
> This suppose that you have the unifont.ttf installed on your machine.

Thanks! To the OP: you should

dnf install unifont-font

and then you can xelatex François' example.
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Thank you very much for your help!   That did the job.  Now my pdf a soccerball appears :)This way I can put which players have how many goals by putting soccerballs next to their names !
$ cat sb2.tex 
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily{\uni}{Unifont}

\begin{document}

{\uni%
\symbol{"26BD}
}

\end{document}$ xelatex sb2.tex 
This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99998 (TeX Live 2017) (preloaded format=xelatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./sb2.tex
LaTeX2e <2017-04-15>
Babel <3.16> and hyphenation patterns for 84 language(s) loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size11.clo))
(/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse/xparse.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3-code.tex)
(/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3kernel/l3xdvipdfmx.def)))
(/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec-xetex.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/tuenc.def))
(/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.cfg)))No file sb2.aux.
[1] (./sb2.aux) )
Output written on sb2.pdf (1 page).
Transcript written on sb2.log.
$
Best Regards,

Antonio