On 2014/07/10 23:02, frantisek holop wrote: > 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...
The fontconfig approach works with st, and according to https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/overview.html it should also work with GNOME terminal, konsole, xfce terminal - a separate port for the patched fonts would be a good idea too I think - as you found, it's required for other terminals and for gvim.
