Are you saying that
utf-8-support is fully implemented, but Pd's font doesn't contain all
symbols?
Yes.

On a minimal Debian Buster where I basically only installed Pd 0.51.3
from backports, I cannot display many symbols in Pd, although the same
symbols are displayed correctly in the terminal. See attached
screenshot with a clef example.
Well, your terminal obviously uses a different font. Just make sure that the Unicode codepoint you want to use is actually supported by the font that is used by Pd (DVSM on Windows/Linux, Menlo on macOS)

Christof

On 18.01.2021 13:48, Roman Haefeli wrote:
On Mon, 2021-01-18 at 12:43 +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:

afaik, the only thing that does not work¹ are emojis. while they are 
technically just unicode symbols, it seems that i cannot enter them 
(although they are displayed correctly, if you get them into the
patch 

Saying "the only thing that does not work" implies everything else
works. I'm not sure what you exactly mean by that. Are you saying that
utf-8-support is fully implemented, but Pd's font doesn't contain all
symbols? Or do you even mean all utf-8 can be displayed in Pd (except
emojis)?

On a minimal Debian Buster where I basically only installed Pd 0.51.3
from backports, I cannot display many symbols in Pd, although the same
symbols are displayed correctly in the terminal. See attached
screenshot with a clef example. 

I don't have a problem with Pd's utf-8 support per se, but according to
your statement I wonder what is expected and what is a bug.

Roman


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