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LemonBoy / bar

A featherweight, lemon-scented, bar based on xcb

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Can't display unicode characters using \uXXXX #121

Closed Jorick closed 9 years ago

Jorick commented 9 years ago

Hi,

I'm trying to add a unicode character as a separator for my statusline ( \u276f ) but I can't get it to display.

I've tried the following:

using printf and pipe it to the bar (based on the example config for bspwm): ..... sys_infos="%{F$COLOR_STATUS_FG}%{B$COLOR_STATUS_BG} $(printf "\u276f") ${line#?} %{B-}%{F-}" ..... printf "%s\n" "%{l}${wm_infos}${title}%{r}${conky}${sys_infos}"
Putting printf in my conkyrc: .... ${exec printf "\u276f"} ....

Both options work fine when running in urxvt, the font I use supports the character but I just can't get it working for lemonbar, it just prints an empty space. Am I doing something wrong or is it just not supported ?

LemonBoy commented 9 years ago

This happens when none of the fonts you've specified contain that glyph (or some random codepage madness happens)

Jorick commented 9 years ago

I'm using profont for both urxvt and the bar, with the same font settings. Since I have no problem displaying the char in urxvt I don't think it's a font problem.

LemonBoy commented 9 years ago

No, the font has only 255 glyphs, you can verify that yourself by using xfd. Mistery solved.