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alighorab

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[SOLVED] urxvt does not view unicode chars and also font awesome icons

I installed rxvt-unicode and tried to restore my previous setup on Manjaro xfce, but I had problems with the unicode support. I can not type arabic letters on the terminal and can not view font awesome icons, It shows like this on vim:

EDIT: I had i3wm installed

Last edited by alighorab (2021-09-06 14:23:47)

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt does not view unicode chars and also font awesome icons

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solskog

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt does not view unicode chars and also font awesome icons

Try and set your urxvt.conf for your specific fonts.

# fc-list : family
# fc-list 
...
# cat /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/60-urxvt.conf
URxvt.font: xft:xos4 terminus:pixelsize=24:antialias=true:autohint=true,xft:unifont

Last edited by solskog (2021-09-05 03:09:58)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt does not view unicode chars and also font awesome icons

Also post the output of

localectl; locale; locale -a

If you seek to make regular use of wide chars, consider eg. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rxvt … ideglyphs/

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alighorab

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt does not view unicode chars and also font awesome icons

Try and set your urxvt.conf for your specific fonts.

# fc-list : family
# fc-list 
...
# cat /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/60-urxvt.conf
URxvt.font: xft:xos4 terminus:pixelsize=24:antialias=true:autohint=true,xft:unifont

Thanks man! it worked.

alighorab

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt does not view unicode chars and also font awesome icons

Try and set your urxvt.conf for your specific fonts.

# fc-list : family
# fc-list 
...
# cat /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/60-urxvt.conf
URxvt.font: xft:xos4 terminus:pixelsize=24:antialias=true:autohint=true,xft:unifont

It break again, any thoughts?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt does not view unicode chars and also font awesome icons

Yes, your screenshot is indicative of a locale issue.
Missing glyphs end up as empty boxes and glyphs extending the monospace box are just not drawn by vanilla urxvt at all.

Post the output requested in #4 and see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale

Edit: crosspost

Last edited by seth (2021-09-05 20:16:47)

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alighorab

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt does not view unicode chars and also font awesome icons

Also post the output of

localectl; locale; locale -a

If you seek to make regular use of wide chars, consider eg. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rxvt … ideglyphs/

System Locale: n/a
VC Keymap: n/a
X11 Layout: n/a
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=en_US.UTF-8
C
en_US.utf8
POSIX

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt does not view unicode chars and also font awesome icons

System Locale: n/a

You're not setting a system locale, so the locale output is likely enforced in your interactive shellrc, but that doesn't apply to the shell that starts urxvt, so fix the system locale, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale

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alighorab

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt does not view unicode chars and also font awesome icons

System Locale: n/a

You're not setting a system locale, so the locale output is likely enforced in your interactive shellrc, but that doesn't apply to the shell that starts urxvt, so fix the system locale, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale

I fixed it, and here is the output again:

System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
VC Keymap: n/a
X11 Layout: n/a
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=en_US.UTF-8
C
en_US.utf8
POSIX

But this does not fix the problem even after I logged out.

Last edited by alighorab (2021-09-05 20:25:28)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt does not view unicode chars and also font awesome icons

tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/$(pidof urxvt)/environ

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alighorab

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt does not view unicode chars and also font awesome icons

System Locale: n/a

You're not setting a system locale, so the locale output is likely enforced in your interactive shellrc, but that doesn't apply to the shell that starts urxvt, so fix the system locale, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale

I fixed it, and here is the output again:

System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
VC Keymap: n/a
X11 Layout: n/a
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=en_US.UTF-8
C
en_US.utf8
POSIX

But this does not fix the problem even after I logged out.

I don't know what happened, but I did

LC_ALL=en_US.utf8

and reboot the machine and it worked again!

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt does not view unicode chars and also font awesome icons

You had LC_ALL there before.
Post your locale.conf and clear your shell rc (bashrc?) from locale settings that have typically no business being there.

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alighorab

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt does not view unicode chars and also font awesome icons

You had LC_ALL there before.
Post your locale.conf and clear your shell rc (bashrc?) from locale settings that have typically no business being there.

Here is it:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

I did clear my zshrc from locale settings, and reboot the machine and it works. I think me put my locale settings in zshrc was the reason for that.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt does not view unicode chars and also font awesome icons

See whether you can remove LC_ALL - it's mainly for debugging.

The original cause will have been the missing global locale config - depending how you "logged out" the changes to /etc/locale.conf might have not been picked up at the moment.

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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