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Seeing all Unicode glyphs / characters #4296

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Some standard distributions have installed fonts that do not contain all Unicode glyphs. For example, after a fresh installation of Ubuntu Linux, my terminal would not render (try running raku -e 'say "\x2a76 ", "\x2a76".uninames' ) correctly.
I solved this by installing a font that aims to have all Unicode glyphs GNU unifont v15. By installing the font as the monospace system default, the browser also produced the glyph.

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Add text to one or more documentation files that mentions this problem and a solution.
I suggest the GNU font, but maybe there is a better solution, or one that is more OS neutral.

There are two documents on Unicode Entering unicode characters and Unicode but neither mention seeing all unicode glyphs. Perhaps also a note in About the docs

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