On 2014/07/10 13:15, frantisek holop wrote: > the following patch adds Unicode Private Use Area > support to urxvt. this is needed for patched fonts > like the powerline/airline console fonts. > > (if you are a vim user, check it out > https://github.com/bling/vim-airline > and some (patched) great console fonts in general: > https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts ) > > this will make urxvt use more memory, > 8 bytes per screen cell instead of 6, > but in the times of tmux, terminal emulator > scrollback buffers don't need to be big :) > > perl support probably takes way more memory ;)
I approve, though it needs a revision bump too. WIP port of powerline including a subpackage for the "add-on" font is attached, this works with the x11/st terminal without additional changes, though it seems urxvt requires the patched fonts instead (even when built with --enable-unicode3).
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