Re: include unicode chars in TeX/LaTeX documents

[François Patte]

Le 19/03/2018 à 17:01, Antonio Olivares a écrit :
> On Monday, March 19, 2018, 10:04:26 AM CDT, François Patte
>  wrote:
>
> Le 19/03/2018 à 15:12, Antonio Olivares a écrit :
> > Dear fellow fedora users,
> >
> > In including a soccer ball character in Unicode, I have found
> >
> > https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/26bd/index.htm
> >
> > And it works.  I try to include in latex document and the character does
> > not show up.  I have tried different variations
> > after \documentclass{article}
> > \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> >
> > And none seem to work.  Is there an easy way to include Unicode chars in
> > latex.
>
> use xelatex
>
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> How do I invoke it? 
> I have texlive 2017 full scheme installed.  I just use old
> latex+dvips+ps2pdf to create documents.

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.