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title: "FreeBSD Unicode symbols support"
date: 2015-10-01 22:38:03 +0200
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The font packages available on a desktop environment with a default
FreeBSD installation do not support the
[Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols_and_Pictographs)
Unicode range (U+1F300..U+1F5FF), which contains various dingbats
and emoji.

A nice vector font providing these symbols is however available
from ports: `x11-fonts/symbola`.

(Note: `x11-fonts/gnu-unifont` and `x11-fonts/gnu-unifont-ttf` are not
nearly as exhaustive.)

**Update 2017-01-23** Similar problem on Debian (CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V
(U+24CB), Ⓥ was missing). Resolved by installing `fonts-linuxlibertine`.