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sding3

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Registered: 2019-12-27

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[resolved] xfce: unicode not showing correctly in X terminal

Recently installed Arch with xfce desktop environment, and can't get unicode characters to display properly under a variety of X terminals, including gnome-terminal, alacritty, xterm, and rxvt-unicode. The character I tested with was the smiling face character(U+263A). The test was done with several fonts, and all displayed a box. Terminals character encoding settings were set to Unicode UTF-8.

Fonts available that should support the smiling face character:

[root@arch ~]# fc-match -s monospace:charset=263A
FreeMono.otf: "FreeMono" "Regular"
FreeSans.otf: "FreeSans" "Regular"
FreeSerif.otf: "FreeSerif" "Regular"
SourceCodePro-Regular.otf: "Source Code Pro" "Regular"
Hack-Regular.ttf: "Hack" "Regular"
Cantarell-Regular.otf: "Cantarell" "Regular"
UTRG__12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz: "Adobe Utopia" "Regular"
term14.pcf.gz: "DEC Terminal" "Regular"

Locale:

[root@arch ~]# cat /etc/locale.conf 
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
[root@arch ~]# 
[root@arch ~]# 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=

Last edited by sding3 (2019-12-28 18:54:23)

Mr.Elendig

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Re: [resolved] xfce: unicode not showing correctly in X terminal

Test with dejavu and/or noto

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sding3

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Registered: 2019-12-27

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Re: [resolved] xfce: unicode not showing correctly in X terminal

Thanks!

Installing noto-fonts-emoji resolved it.