[XeTeX] Unicode Watch character -> \VarClock

[Nicolas Girard]

2009/12/13 Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at web.de>:
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> Am 12.12.2009 um 15:28 schrieb Nicolas Girard:
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>> 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.)
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> The ifsym package comes with special (METAFONT) fonts which are used to
> create the PK bitmap versions in order to use these symbols.
>
>

Hi Peter,

thanks for these explanations. Now, is there any way of getting XeTeX
to switch to, say Free Serif, each time it sees that U+231A character
?

Nicolas