@PoP: Ah, that's easy, forgot to plug OT support into the stdin codepath ;p.
EDIT: And now I properly get 2 squares (one if I feed it U+1F680 directly) because there's no rocket glyph in my unscii version

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EDITē: But with Win 10's symbol font, we have liftoff!
Code:
./fbink -t regular=seguisym.ttf,size=86 -o -M -m -c -v "<0001f680>" ──(Tue, Sep 13)─┘
[FBInk] Enabled Legacy einkfb Kindle quirks
[FBInk] Clock tick frequency appears to be 100 Hz
[FBInk] Screen density set to 167 dpi
[FBInk] Variable fb info: 600x800, 8bpp @ rotation: 0 (Upright, 0°)
[FBInk] Fontsize set to 16x16 (IBM base glyph size: 8x8)
[FBInk] Line length: 37 cols, Page size: 50 rows
[FBInk] Fixed fb info: ID is "eink_fb", length of fb mem: 966656 bytes & line length: 600 bytes
[FBInk] Pen colors set to #000000 -> #FFFFFF for the foreground and #FFFFFF -> #000000 for the background
Loading font 'seguisym.ttf' for the Regular style
Initialized libunibreak
[FBInk] Font 'seguisym.ttf' loaded
Printing string '��' @ 86pt, honoring the following margins { Top: 0px, Bottom: 0px, Left: 0px, Right: 0px } (formatted: N, overlay: Y, no BG: N, no FG: N, inverted: N, flashing: N, centered: Y, H align: 0, halfway: Y, V align: 0, clear screen: Y)
Printing OpenType text.
Unformatted text defaulting to Regular font style
Max BL: 162 Max Desc: -37 Max LG: 0
Finished looking for linebreaks
Current Measured LW: 139 Line# 0
1 lines to be printed
Maximum printable height is 800
Actual print height is 199
Max LW: 600 Max LH: 199 Max BL: 162 FntSize: 199
Finished printing line# 0
Refreshing region from LEFT: 230, TOP: 300, WIDTH: 139, HEIGHT: 199
Area is: x1: 0, y1: 0, x2: 600, y2: 800 with fx: 0
Detected a full-screen area, upgrading to FBIO_EINK_UPDATE_DISPLAY
We don't do any shaping, so you have to use precomposed characters.