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cutecoder

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Registered: 2023-08-24

Posts: 13

[SOLVED] Terminal doesn't show specific glyphs

My issue is that all terminal emulators I tried (alacritty, tilda and xfce4-terminal) show a blank character for very specific glyphs using my custom font, namely んのいし.

I inspected my primary font using fontforge which I've done edits before to customize it and noticed that fontforge shows a blank character for those specific glyphs. So I simply cleared them, generated the font and after using fontconfig to recache everything (fc-cache -r ; fc-cache -vf) and even restarting the system, they still appear as blank characters.

I want those characters to be the ones from another font which works for あおなか and so on but not those specific glyphs.

I thought that maybe those glyphs were still cached somewhere but I'm really not sure what the problem is now.
I hope someone knows what might be wrong.

I uploaded the font to here: https://ufile.io/h4qgz0pm
The name of the font is: "BmPlus IBM VGA 8x16"

Last edited by cutecoder (2023-08-24 18:48:03)

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Terminal doesn't show specific glyphs

fc-list :charset=3093

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cutecoder

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Registered: 2023-08-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Terminal doesn't show specific glyphs

Oh no, I just solved it by coincidence. Seems like I had another font with the same family name (another file) that took priority, I noticed this by doing:

fc-list :charset=3039 | grep IBM

Thanks for seth for that hint.

Last edited by cutecoder (2023-08-24 18:45:46)

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