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It is possible that some of you might know the answer to this...  but I suspect the answer is that you can't currently do this. If you know this to be true a confirmation and any further information you have would be handy.

As explained at www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/chapter6.html#chars.BMP-SMP a fair number of quite important unicode symbols for

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[teuta]

You have probably thought of this, but have you asked around the cs department? Julian, Marina and Bill were doing MathML. I'm shocked zootalures doesn't know :-)

[cyberiantiger]

I can get every symbol on that page to render in Firefox fine, I just installed ttf-oflb-asana-math (result of a fairly quick search in synaptic for mathematical font).

YMMV with terminals however I imagine provided you can find a monospaced font somewhere it should be fine. Off the top of my head I can't think of a terminal which does not support utf8.

G'Luck

[cyberiantiger]

I vaguely remember getting hold of a free font which included the runic characters from LOTR, and getting them to display in an xterm, you shouldn't have any problems with mathematical symbols (I was bored at the time OK).

As a side note, utf8 support in telnet clients is appalling, so don't start talking 𝝅 on A2 ;)