On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:38:44AM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > When I first started using URxvt, I had to find some fonts that rendered > properly (terminus). I don't know much about fonts but I know that there are > several fonts that render well in Xterm or Gnome-terminal, but not Urxvt. > Generally these problems are not corrected, because of a perception that the > problem is with the font and not the terminal.
FontAwesome uses private/reserved codepoints for extra glyphs - rxvt-unicode has no way of knowing about these reserved characters, so it has no way of knowing how to display them. Some other terminals might seem to work to some extent because they arbitrarily assign widths to these characters that seem to match them (mostly because most terminals do not support locales, which is one of the main features of rxvt-unicode). This is simply a problem with the font, not a bug in rxvt-unicode. This also has been discussed on the list a few times, so it would have been more productive to also post those mails that explain the solution, not just mails with pointless claims of bugs. And it would be far more productive to get the actual fonts fixed, of which there are few, rather than propose hacks that actually break things. > > FontAwesome doesn't work in urxvt (1st window), but works in xst terminal > > (2nd window): https://imgur.com/a/HkcWalq > > There are some patches fixing that bug: > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=rxvt-unicode -- The choice of a Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG -----==- _GNU_ http://www.deliantra.net ----==-- _ generation ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [email protected] -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ _______________________________________________ rxvt-unicode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schmorp.de/mailman/listinfo/rxvt-unicode
