Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Robert Palm would write on Fri Dec 15 15:10:58 2023:
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> 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.
>
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.
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