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Missing Unicode characters "⯈" and "⯆" in many fonts #232

Closed lazzalazza closed 1 month ago

lazzalazza commented 1 month ago

I've encountered an issue with the use of the Unicode characters "⯈" (U+2BC8) and "⯆" (U+2BC6) in org-modern-fold-stars. These characters appear to be missing from many common fonts, causing unexpected behavior when rendering folded elements in my Org-mode files.

Here is my current workaround, where I replaced "⯈" and "⯆" with other Unicode characters that are more widely supported:

(setq org-modern-fold-stars
      '(("▶" . "▼")
        ("▷" . "▽")
        ;; ("⯈" . "⯆")
        ("▷" . "▽")
        ("▹" . "▿")
        ("▸" . "▾"))
)

Workaround: As shown in the code above, I have commented out the line using "⯈" and "⯆" and replaced them with alternatives which seem to be supported by the fonts I commonly use (eg. "Source Code Pro").

Request: It would be helpful to have a more robust way to handle missing Unicode characters or improved documentation on fonts that support these specific symbols.

Thanks for your attention!

minad commented 1 month ago

Duplicate #224. I suggest to propose that the missing characters are added to the fonts in question. Like this free software project, many free software fonts are not set in stone and can be improved. See for example the Iosevka font which has many variants (also custom ones) and which is continuously improved.