[Tex/LaTex] ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode character ☯ (U+262F)

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I encountered this error while trying to compile my thesis.
Before I did not have this error.

Any idea how I can find this Unicode character in my LaTeX document, or solve this issue?

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to more easily find it add

\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{262F}{YIN YANG HERE!!!!!}

to your preamble, and search the output for that text. If you want it to display then find a yinyang.pdf image and do something like

\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{262F}{\includegraphics[height=1ex]{yinyang}}

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[Tex/LaTex] Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined – ^^c0

The class file diploma.cls is not well written.

Packages should generally be loaded after \LoadClass. You can just move the \LoadClass declaration at the top. Also pdfx should be loaded before inputenc.

\def\fileversion{9.0}
\def\filedate{2016/06/20}
\def\docdate{20. června 2016}
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesClass{diploma}[\filedate\space \fileversion\space diploma EXPERIMENTAL LaTeX document class]
\LoadClass[11pt]{article}
\RequirePackage[a-1b]{pdfx}
\RequirePackage[latin1,utf8]{inputenc}

I don't think the latin1 option to inputenc does anything good. Actually, the package should be loaded in the document and not by the class.

[Tex/LaTex] Package inputenc Error: Unicode character ⁡ (U+2061), in MacTex

on line 136 of your source you have

  U+005c REVERSE SOLIDUS     &bsol; \backslash \textbackslash
  U+006f LATIN SMALL LETTER O     o
  U+0077 LATIN SMALL LETTER W     w
  U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A     a
  U+2061 FUNCTION APPLICATION 
  U+0028 LEFT PARENTHESIS     &lpar; \lparen (
  U+0045 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E     E

So if you delete everything form the ( back to \owa and then retype the \owa ( without the invisible U+2061 character before the ( then it should be fine.

Note this is unrelated to using mactex or linux etc, you may have U+2061 defined in a package in one place and not the other, it is not defined by default.

If you want to declare it rather than remove it just use

\DeclareUnicodeCharacte{2061}{}

which declares it and makes it do nothing.

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