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Dan39

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Registered: 2007-07-06

Posts: 6

rxvt-unicode default font stopped displaying some characters

Been using rxvt-unicode in archlinux for years. Always loved the default font, which is "fixed" aka "6x13" which should equal "-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1" according to the Fixed typeface wiki page.

About a couple months ago, could be longer, after a reboot I noticed some characters that always displayed fine showing little rectangles. I didn't change anything in my Xresources or with locale. Kept putting it off hoping it would be fixed on the next reboot or some update, but it hasn't been.

See screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/mVOE5RI.png  the bottom one is with no font set in Xresources(looks same if set to fixed or 6x13), top one is with font set to "-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1"

The ascii characters look exactly the same, but the extra characters are different. The ones not being displayed are mostly from Dingbats section.

This is bugging the hell out of me. The default worked for such a long time... :\

Please help, thanks!

olive

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 1,490

Re: rxvt-unicode default font stopped displaying some characters

Could you post a txt file that shows the problem so that I can test myself. It seems to works for me, but I am unsure of the missing characters; so I need a text file to be sure. You must have xorg-fonts-75dpi. Also be sure to set the locale correctly. What's the output of "locale" (LC_CTYPE must be an utf8 locale).

Last edited by olive (2015-10-21 07:43:50)

Dan39

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Registered: 2007-07-06

Posts: 6

Re: rxvt-unicode default font stopped displaying some characters

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there's the characters i tested

I just installed xorg-fonts-75dpi, it didn't help.

locale...

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=

olive

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 1,490

Re: rxvt-unicode default font stopped displaying some characters

It works for me. You can choose your font with xfontsel. But

urxvt -fn "-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1"

works for me. Could you test to launch urxvt with this command? Are your resources set correctly? In case there is some problem with the font could you uninstall xorg-fonts-75dpi and xorg-fonts-100dpi; remove /usr/share/fonts/{75dpi,100dpi} and reinstall them.

Last edited by olive (2015-10-21 20:20:18)