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yashsriv

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Registered: 2016-08-10

Posts: 6

Urxvt fallback fonts not working as expected

I have been trying to display fallback characters for glyphs like ⏰ (U+23F0) on Urxvt. My default font is Inconsolata. I know for a fact that the glyph exists in Segoe UI Symbol. All other terminals manage to display this character (even st without even specifying a fallback font).I have tried the following things :

URxvt*font: xft:Inconsolata:size=14:antialias=true,xft:Segoe UI Symbol:style=Regular

The above can not show my character. But this does:

URxvt*font: xft:Segoe UI Symbol:style=Regular

Even this works:

URxvt*font: xft:Terminus:size=14:antialias=true,xft:Segoe UI Symbol:style=Regular

but not :

URxvt*font: xft:Source Code Pro:size=14:antialias=true,xft:Segoe UI Symbol:style=Regular

My question is, why can some fonts be displayed with a fallback while others can't??

See also:
[SOLVED] urxvt doesn't display correctly some special characters
[SOLVED] Urxvt + Inconsolata Displaying UTF-8 Characters Incorrectly