On 2023/12/15 15:33:44 -0600, "Jay F. Shachter" <j...@m5.chicago.il.us> wrote: > > Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Robert Palm would write on Fri Dec > 15 15:10:58 2023: > > > > > I am playing with UTF-8 characters and try to display, e.g. a lock > > symbol https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1F512 > > > > I use xfce and set the terminal default character encoding to UTF-8 in > > advanced settings. > > > > Still I cannot get it displayed in xterm or emacs, e.g. by simply > > trying to copy paste from the website :-/ > > > > Emacs gives a box and xterm a blank.
This is probably 'just' a font issue. For instance, I'm currently using DejaVu Sans Mono on xterm and it renders the lock icon for me, while on emacs Julia Mono doesn't. Make sure you have a UTF8 locale set too. > Does your version of xterm support UTF-8? Uxterm was originally the > version of xterm that supported UTF-8. That was a long time ago; on > my system, xterm now also supports UTF-8. Maybe on your system you > have to install uxterm. xterm on OpenBSD definitely supports and has utf8 enabled.
