Droid Sans Mono on OS X not patching?

[OliverJAsh]

iTerm2 settings:

.vimrc:

set guifont=Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline.ttf:h15

Result:

I downloaded the OTF and converted it to TTF with fontforge (the OTF didn't work in iTerm), using the following script:

#!/usr/local/bin/fontforge
# Quick and dirty hack: converts a font to truetype (.ttf)
Print("Opening "+$1);
Open($1);
Print("Saving "+$1:r+".ttf");
Generate($1:r+".ttf");
Quit(0);

The result of the conversion was this:

Opening Droid Sans Mono for Powerline.otf
The glyph named mu is mapped to U+00B5.
But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+03BC.
The glyph named Tcommaaccent is mapped to U+021A.
But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+0162.
The glyph named tcommaaccent is mapped to U+021B.
But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+0163.
The glyph named macron is mapped to U+02C9.
But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+00AF.
The glyph named hook is mapped to U+0309.
But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+2440.
The glyph named Omega is mapped to U+2126.
But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+03A9.
The glyph named Delta is mapped to U+2206.
But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+0394.
Saving Droid Sans Mono for Powerline.ttf

What do I need to do to get this font to work in iTerm2/MacVim on OS X?

[daagar]

I know nothing about OSX, but you might want to try patching the original font rather that the .otf from here. That way you'll be going from .ttf to .ttf, rather than from .otf to .ttf.

[OliverJAsh]

I'm following these instructions now to do that. I can't seem to find fontpatcher.py anywhere however. Any tips?

[OliverJAsh]

I got the .otf file to work by restarting iTerm. In Terminal.app the patched characters appear how they should, and also in MacVim. In Vim in Term2, however, they appear as shown above still…

[daagar]

fontpatcher.py is part of the actual powerline repository (Lokaltog/powerline), not here in powerline-fonts :)

[richardwooding]

I can't find font-patcher.py in the powerline repository?

[Lokaltog]

https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fontpatcher