On Monday, March 19, 2018, 12:05:06 PM CDT, Andras Simon <szajmi@gmail.com> wrote:


2018-03-19 17:01 GMT+01:00, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@yahoo.com>:
>    On Monday, March 19, 2018, 10:04:26 AM CDT, François Patte
> <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> 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 &