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jabozzo

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Registered: 2025-10-19

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Some Hyprland apps do not render UTF characters

Hi,

I've done a fresh installation of Arch + Hyprland. For some apps UTF-8 characters are not rendering, for example waybar and firefox. But at least for kitty it renders correctly. I am launching Hyprland manually after logging into the terminal after boot.

I've read the locale wiki up and down several times and I am still chasing the error. These are the outputs of all locale-related things I could think of:

[jabozzo@hydropowered ~]$ head -n 157 /etc/locale.gen | tail -n 7
#en_CA ISO-8859-1  
#en_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8  
#en_DK ISO-8859-1  
en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8  
#en_GB ISO-8859-1  
#en_HK.UTF-8 UTF-8  
#en_HK ISO-8859-1  

[jabozzo@hydropowered ~]$ cat /etc/locale.conf 
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

[jabozzo@hydropowered ~]$ localectl
System Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
    VC Keymap: la-latin1
   X11 Layout: (unset)         

[jabozzo@hydropowered ~]$ locale -a
C
C.utf8
en_GB.utf8
POSIX

[jabozzo@hydropowered ~]$ echo $LANG
en_GB.UTF-8

The issue looks like this:

What could I be missing?

Last edited by jabozzo (2025-10-19 04:28:07)

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,643

Re: [SOLVED] Some Hyprland apps do not render UTF characters

Whatever font(s) you are using to display monospace don't have glyphs for the code points you are looking at.

jabozzo

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Registered: 2025-10-19

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Some Hyprland apps do not render UTF characters

Indeed, by installing all-repository-fonts the issue is fixed. Thank you very much!

seth

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From: Don't DM me only for attention

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 69,217

Re: [SOLVED] Some Hyprland apps do not render UTF characters

You'd just need one of the nerd fonts.

Edit: https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=-nerd

Last edited by seth (2025-10-19 07:26:18)

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