Special symbols missing?

[wullxz]

I installed vista.vim and made sure that the powerline fonts are available: sudo apt install fonts-powerline

I restarted my terminal and X server and can see in my vim-airline bar, that special symbols (the arrows, "Line Number"-Symbol, Git Branch symbol) are now available. To test what's wrong, I assigned the unicode value 0192 to be displayed for functions, which works:

let g:vista#renderer#icons = {
\   "function": "\u0192",
\   "variable": "\uf71b",
\  }

But still, as you can see, the other symbols aren't displayed. What font (or patch) do I need to show the default symbols?

Environment: Editor: Vim 8.0 OS: Ubuntu 18.04 on Windows (WSL)

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[liuchengxu]

I believe some symbols are only avaliable in nerd fonts, and not all powerline fonts behave the same. I personally use these fonts: https://github.com/liuchengxu/space-vim/wiki/tips#programming-fonts. If you don't have the proper font installed, just disable the icon in vista.vim via let g:vista#renderer#enable_icon = 0.

[wullxz]

Thanks @liuchengxu ! I got "Sauce Code Pro" in semi bold from here and installed it like this:

mkdir -p ~/.fonts/nerd-fonts/
cd ~/.fonts/nerd-fonts/
curl https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/patched-fonts/SourceCodePro/Semibold/complete/Sauce%20Code%20Pro%20Semibold%20Nerd%20Font%20Complete%20Mono.ttf?raw=true -o SauceCodePro.ttf
fc-cache -fv SauceCodePro.ttf
# check if it's there and what name it has:
fc-list | grep -i code

I added it to vim using this command in my .vimrc:

set guifont=SauceCodePro\ Nerd\ Font\ Mono

[laoshaw]

I believe some symbols are only avaliable in nerd fonts, and not all powerline fonts behave the same. I personally use these fonts: https://github.com/liuchengxu/space-vim/wiki/tips#programming-fonts. If you don't have the proper font installed, just disable the icon in vista.vim via let g:vista#renderer#enable_icon = 0.

all the icons on my ubuntu 20.04 gnome-terminal are messed up until I set let g:vista#renderer#enable_icon = 0 and also disable icons.