I neither can't see the char you show us but about the support of the unicode\Chinese in OpenBSD..
I have the font Noto in my system and I own the following in the .xinitrc file: export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim export QT_IM_MODULE=xim export GLFW_IM_MODULE=ibus export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM" /usr/local/bin/scim -d & xconsole -iconic & /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 Indeed I can now do the following from xfce4-terminal: wiz$ pwd /home/wiz wiz$ ls wiz$ touch 你好.txt wiz$ ls 你好.txt Please not that xfce4-terminal encoding is configured on UTF-8 but it can use any frontend font like "Monospace Regular 10" and at need seems to pick up the right font. I want to thank everyone worked on the unicode support at system level for the nice eandover, appreciated. == Nowarez Market Robert Palm <develo...@robert-palm.de> wrote: > 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. > > Any hints? Thanks!