[SOLVED] urxvt does not display special characters

Okay so I've been scouring the internet, Googling my face off. I am an intermediate linux user, first-time Arch user (just came over from Mint and love it). Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but I am unable to get urxvt to display special characters. E.g.:
☽
☾
♊
⚕
⚛
⚚
displays in the terminal as:
Relevant informations...
.Xresources:
!color0 (black) = Black
!color1 (red) = Red3
!color2 (green) = Green3
!color3 (yellow) = Yellow3
!color4 (blue) = Blue3
!color5 (magenta) = Magenta3
!color6 (cyan) = Cyan3
!color7 (white) = AntiqueWhite
!color8 (bright black) = Grey25
!color9 (bright red) = Red
!color10 (bright green) = Green
!color11 (bright yellow) = Yellow
!color12 (bright blue) = Blue
!color13 (bright magenta) = Magenta
!color14 (bright cyan) = Cyan
!color15 (bright white) = White
!foreground = Black
!background = White
!URxvt*termName: rxvt-256color
URxvt*termName: rxvt-unicode
URxvt*transparent: true
URxvt*depth: 32
URxvt*shading: 70
URxvt*saveLines: 12000
URxvt*foreground: #BABABA
URxvt.font: xft:terminus:pixelsize=11:antialias=false
URxvt*scrollBar: false
URxvt*borderLess: false
URxvt*inheritPixmap: true
URxvt.urlLauncher: google-chrome
URxvt.imLocale: en_US.utf8
URxvt*color0: #000000
URxvt*color4: #005577
URxvt*color6: #89b6e2
URxvt*color7: #cccccc
URxvt*color8: #555753
URxvt*color12: #0075A3
URxvt*color14: #46a4ff
URxvt*color15: #ffffff
Output of locale and locale -a:
[dusty] [~]
$ locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=
[dusty] [~]
$ locale -a
C
POSIX
en_US.utf8
I don't believe it's a font issue, as those characters display fine in a text editor using Terminus.
Last edited by rollhax (2012-09-23 01:04:16)

Nisstyre56 wrote:Did you install "rxvt-unicode" or just "rxvt"? I'm sorry, but I have to ask
Yes
stlarch wrote:Check the wiki page for locale.
Read over it ten times. The only thing that looks remotely helpful is the section on "My terminal doesn't support UTF-8" ... it then tells me to use rxvt-unicode, which I am using. Feel free to point out something that may be obvious to you. I'm pretty oblivious at times.

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