include unicode chars in TeX/LaTeX documents

[Antonio Olivares]

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.

Best Regards,

Antonio

[François Patte]

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

[Antonio Olivares]

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

[Andras Simon]

2018-03-19 17:01 GMT+01:00, Antonio Olivares :
> 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

[...]
> How do I invoke it?  I have texlive 2017 full scheme installed.  I just use
> old latex+dvips+ps2pdf to create documents.

Invoking it is not the problem (just say 'xelatex yourtexfile.tex').
But I'd be surprised if this solved your problem. First, xelatex is
not exactly tex, so you'll probably have to change a few things at
least in the preamble of your document. Second, you need a font with
the soccerball character in it. If I had this problem, I'd use google.

Andras

[Antonio Olivares]

On Monday, March 19, 2018, 12:05:06 PM CDT, Andras Simon  wrote:

2018-03-19 17:01 GMT+01:00, Antonio Olivares :
> 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

[...]
> How do I invoke it?  I have texlive 2017 full scheme installed.  I just use
> old latex+dvips+ps2pdf to create documents.

Invoking it is not the problem (just say 'xelatex yourtexfile.tex').
But I'd be surprised if this solved your problem. First, xelatex is
not exactly tex, so you'll probably have to change a few things at
least in the preamble of your document. Second, you need a font with
the soccerball character in it. If I had this problem, I'd use google.

Andras
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I have an input file
$ cat test-sb.tex 
\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}

\textSoccerBall â½

%\char"\u26bd"  %U+26BD
% ð
%â½
\end{document}

and I process it with 
$ xelatex test-sb,tex 
This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99998 (TeX Live 2017) (preloaded format=xelatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test-sb.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/size10.clo))
(/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty

Package inputenc Warning: inputenc package ignored with utf8 based engines.

) (./test-sb.aux)
! Undefined control sequence.l.9 \textSoccerBall
                    â½
? ^[[?64;1;2;6;9;15;18;21;22c
Type <return> to proceed, S to scroll future error messages,
R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly,
I to insert something, E to edit your file,
1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input,
H for help, X to quit.
? 
[1] (./test-sb.aux) )
Output written on test-sb.pdf (1 page).
Transcript written on test-sb.log.
$ xpdf test-sb.pdf &

[Antonio Olivares]

On Monday, March 19, 2018, 12:18:11 PM CDT, Antonio Olivares  wrote:

On Monday, March 19, 2018, 12:05:06 PM CDT, Andras Simon  wrote:

2018-03-19 17:01 GMT+01:00, Antonio Olivares :
> 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

[...]
> How do I invoke it?  I have texlive 2017 full scheme installed.  I just use
> old latex+dvips+ps2pdf to create documents.

Invoking it is not the problem (just say 'xelatex yourtexfile.tex').
But I'd be surprised if this solved your problem. First, xelatex is
not exactly tex, so you'll probably have to change a few things at
least in the preamble of your document. Second, you need a font with
the soccerball character in it. If I had this problem, I'd use google.

Andras
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I have an input file
$ cat test-sb.tex 
\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}

\textSoccerBall â½

%\char"\u26bd"  %U+26BD
% ð
%â½
\end{document}

and I process it with 
$ xelatex test-sb,tex 
This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99998 (TeX Live 2017) (preloaded format=xelatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test-sb.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/size10.clo))
(/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty

Package inputenc Warning: inputenc package ignored with utf8 based engines.

) (./test-sb.aux)
! Undefined control sequence.l.9 \textSoccerBall
                    â½
? ^[[?64;1;2;6;9;15;18;21;22c
Type <return> to proceed, S to scroll future error messages,
R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly,
I to insert something, E to edit your file,
1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input,
H for help, X to quit.
? 
[1] (./test-sb.aux) )
Output written on test-sb.pdf (1 page).
Transcript written on test-sb.log.
$ xpdf test-sb.pdf &

/**************/
above command did not show anything in pdf.  I saw the macro at 
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/CTAN/macros/xetex/latex/xecjk/xunicode-symbols.pd...
in page 42 of above document.  Thank you for helping.
Best Regards,

Antonio

[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
>
> -- 
> François Patte
> UFR de mathématiques et informatique
> Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145
> Université Paris Descartes
> 45, rue des Saints Pères
> F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
> Tél. [phone]
> http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
>
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>
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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.

[Antonio Olivares]

On Monday, March 19, 2018, 1:08:26 PM CDT, François Patte  wrote:

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
>
> -- 
> François Patte
> UFR de mathématiques et informatique
> Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145
> Université Paris Descartes
> 45, rue des Saints Pères
> F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
> Tél. [phone]
> http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
>
> users mailing list -- [e-mail]
>
> To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]
>
> /***********************************************************************************/
>
> 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.

[Andras Simon]

2018-03-19 20:08 GMT+01:00, Antonio Olivares :
> Thanks for helping me.  I am close but I get error:

[...]

dnf install unifont-font

(as root) will solve this problem.

[Andras Simon]

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.

[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