hmm, on Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 09:08:04PM +0100, Stuart Henderson said that > 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.
sorry, forgot the bump. > 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). on my notebook, gvim was not happy with just the fontconfig approach, i had to use the patched fonts. is it working for you? because if it does not work for anyone, then the font subpackage is useless... -f -- can't have everything. where would you put it?
