[XeTeX] Unicode Watch character -> \VarClock

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 12.12.2009 um 15:28 schrieb Nicolas Girard:

> Using the following document, I'm experiencing two independant issues:
> 1. \DeclareUTFcharacter seems to do nothing

Yes, it seems so...

> 2. \VarClock doesn't appear

Because you haven't supplied a font with a glyph for that character!  
(The default Latin Modern fonts do not have it, and XeTeX *never* uses  
METAFONT fonts.)

The ifsym package comes with special (METAFONT) fonts which are used  
to create the PK bitmap versions in order to use these symbols.


Unicode fonts containing U+231A WATCH are:

	Apple Symbols (pixels!)
	Caslon
	Code2000 (rather big)
	Free Serif
	Monospace
	STIXGeneral
	Sun-ExtA
	Unicode Symbols (quite ancient look, no À)

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   Pete

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