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vincent-petithory / i3cat

A simple program to combine multiple i3bar JSON inputs into one to forward to i3bar.
http://vincent-petithory.github.io/i3cat/
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Unicode symbol in example? #3

Closed benoliver999 closed 8 years ago

benoliver999 commented 8 years ago

Hello - I really like your example script for showing mpd-now playing.

However, there's a couple of weird symbols that don't show on my PC.

It's the three that come after status so

status=
status=
status=

And also

full_text": "

(the final character is the one that won't show on my end)

They also bug out in i3bar when it loads. The codes seem to be U+F04D, U+F04C, (twice?) and U+F198

This probably seems like a crazy question, especially if you can see the fonts! I was just wondering what you were getting at, and what I might need to install?

vincent-petithory commented 8 years ago

Heya,

These chars are for iconic fonts, like font-awesome or font-icons. The expected icons in this example are the standard play/pause/stop icons of music players.

Checkout https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/I3#Iconic_fonts_in_the_status_bar for example. Note the codes for a particular icon may vary from one font to another.

benoliver999 commented 8 years ago

Oh cool - I had no idea those were a thing on the desktop.