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mk0lev

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Registered: 2017-06-13

Posts: 26

Unicode characters(solid icons/glyphs) won't render correctly!

Hello, as it says I have problem with displaying Unicode characters correctly. Especially solid icons like these https://fontawesome.com/cheatsheet. I'm running i3wm with polybar, where I want the solid icons to be displayed in.
I tried with different fonts

font pango:DejaVu Sans Mono,FontAwesome 9

but it won't render the glyphs correctly. When I paste them in the polybar config file, they show up as squares. That's the output of locale

martin➜~» locale                                                    [20:25:47]
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I think the problem is not there, but yet I don't know where it is. My best guess is that I configure the fonts wrong or I install them not correctly, although I use AUR packages for fonts. Any suggestions?

Thanks, Martin

Last edited by mk0lev (2018-02-08 19:42:31)