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barefly

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Registered: 2014-08-16

Posts: 59

urxvt not showing unicode characters

I'm trying to get urxvt to display unicode characters from Font Awesome. Right now these symbols are displaying without any issue in various other programs and terminals, including i3blocks and termite.

I've checked my locale and everything seems to check out.

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

I have also confirmed that urxvt has unicode3 and frills enabled.

I've included a snippet of my .Xresources and a screenshot of just what's going on.

http://imgur.com/ZgKAHxX

EDIT: Well I have finally made some headway and installed xfontsel, which has really helped a lot. I am finally able to see some icons of Awesome Font in urxvt, but they are cut off. Here's an example...

http://imgur.com/CP0BSGw

Anybody have a fix for this?

Last edited by barefly (2016-01-07 23:49:15)

paulkerry

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2014-10-02

Posts: 611

Re: urxvt not showing unicode characters

I'm no font guru, but does "Font Awesome" have iso10646 unicode support?

When launching xfontsel, select "rgstry" towards the far right hand side and select "iso10646": then if you select "fmly", fonts which have this support are not greyed out.

Do other fonts exhibit the same symptoms?

Perhaps you could try "terminus-font" which is easily installed via pacman?

barefly

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Registered: 2014-08-16

Posts: 59

Re: urxvt not showing unicode characters

I just confirmed that font awesome does have iso10546 support in xfontsel. I believe the issue has something to do with urxvt because I have seen bug reports of urxvt cutting off certain unicode characters. I have only tried font awesome, but since I am primarily using it to write a few symbols the issue is rather small. I'm currently using dina as my primary terminal font, so installing terminus and switching to terminus wouldn't fix the issue.

ygoreus

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From: 4th Dimmension

Registered: 2014-07-12

Posts: 6

Re: urxvt not showing unicode characters

I got them to show up (in some capacity or another) by using the "Dejavu Sans Mono For Powerline" font from here: (https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts)