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


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How do I invoke it? 
I have texlive 2017 full scheme installed.  I just use old latex+dvips+ps2pdf to create documents. 

Best Regards,


Antonio