On 2023/12/15 15:33:44 -0600, "Jay F. Shachter" <jay@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.
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