[Tex/LaTex] Fun unicode characters with pandoc

Question

Silly question: I want to use a heart (♥) character in my presentation.

I'm already using xelatex as engine so it doesn't complain for the character itself but it doesn't render it. Just a blank space where the character should be.

Here is the snippet of the offending code:

    (Celery + RabbitMQ) ♥  Django

Notice that I'm using markdown for the input format.

This is how I make the pdf

pandoc -t beamer --latex-engine=xelatex \
    in.md -oout.pdf --slide-level=2

I'm new to pandoc and latex in general.

♥ Thanks ♥

Answer 1

Maybe you need this answer.

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{arev}
\begin{document}
$\heartsuit$
\end{document}