Hi all, I've tried switching to urxvt from xterm lately. It looks OK, but there's one critical issue that makes me look for another alternative. The problem is that urxvt doesn't display some of the unicode characters. They are supported by the fonts I use, and are displayed just fine by xterm and st even. But urxvt displays rectangles instead.
Here's a simple test I use: curl "wttr.in?format=2" The above command shows weather condition symbols in urxvt, but there are rectangles displayed instead of the "Thermometer" (U+1F321) and the "Wind Blowing Face" (U+1F32C) symbol. Other emojis are not displayed either. Adding backup fonts doesn't help. I'm currently using the following: "URxvt*font: xft:Mono:size=12, xft:Symbola" The Symbola font supports those symbols, I've checked that with a font viewer as well as with the "fc-list :charset=<hex>" command. This is the locale command output: $ locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8" LC_TIME="en_US.utf8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8" LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8" LC_NAME="en_US.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8" As I said before the same symbols work fine in xterm and st. Playing with the font and letterspace options doesn't help. I've tried recompiling the latest urxvt with the same result. Do I miss something, or is there something wrong with urxvt? -- Thanks, Val. _______________________________________________ rxvt-unicode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schmorp.de/mailman/listinfo/rxvt-unicode
