[SOLVED] Symbols instead of characters

saltymonky · 2016-12-23 02:57:33

Good evening

While customizing i3, my i3 status bar, name of console and dmenu started to use symbols instead of characters (like snowflakes, square ...). The same is happening on the web when someone post code.
I checked my config file for i3 and it is using monospace, and when i uncomment this line "font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-iso10646-1", the i3status bar is fine as well as the name of console but not for dmenu.

If anyone has any idea, it would be appreciated

Thanks

Last edited by saltymonky (2017-09-27 09:47:49)

jasonwryan · 2016-12-23 02:58:53

Install a decent monospace font. Dejavu is a good choice.

saltymonky · 2016-12-23 03:14:22

I have already install, do the same as monospace

tomeklechu1122 · 2016-12-23 08:40:58

Note that you need to change this value in your ~/.config/i3/config file:
then Mod + Shift + r

 font pango:DejaVu Sans Mono 8

Last edited by tomeklechu1122 (2016-12-23 08:41:24)

seth · 2016-12-23 09:00:00

"Using" it will be a good idea as well.... (eg. pass '-fn "DejaVu Sans Mono-12"' to dmenu)

saltymonky · 2016-12-23 12:28:30

Sorry I should have mentionned that I have change the value in the config file of i3

seth wrote:

"Using" it will be a good idea as well.... (eg. pass '-fn "DejaVu Sans Mono-12"' to dmenu)

I try it, nothing happens, still getting symbols.

Edit:
I added 2 pictures, one with "font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-iso10646-1" uncommented and one commented but showing web page

https://imgur.com/a/lssoG

Last edited by saltymonky (2016-12-23 12:44:09)

seth · 2016-12-23 13:28:54

That looks like some dingbats/windings font is matched??

fc-match monospace

saltymonky · 2016-12-23 14:31:15

I get

D050000L.otf: "D050000L" "Regular"

Don't really know what it means

seth · 2016-12-23 14:51:18

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=215895
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=218126

It's from gsfonts and you need to either fix the fontconfig configuration or remove the package.
Why you still get that font despite explicitly configuring another is (aside config errors) beyond me.

saltymonky · 2016-12-23 16:12:04

Thanks you so much for your help

I used https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=215437 and it worked perfectly.

Arch Linux

#1 2016-12-23 02:57:33

[SOLVED] Symbols instead of characters

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