Some unicode symbols still not displayed with urxvt or xterm
Solution 1
Fernando Basso's answer already helped me a lot. However, as he also pointed out, I still could not get all the glyphs to work. Especially the symbol indicating the line in airline (㏑) didn't work until I added the ttf version of Unifont.
The ttf version can be installed with apt install ttf-unifont
on Debian (probably it's a different package name in other distributions). After that I added the ttf version of Unifont as an extra entry to my ~/.Xdefaults
:
URxvt.font: xft:Hack:pixelsize=18,\
xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize:18,\
xft:Unifont:pixelsize:16,\
-*-unifont-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
As you can see, it's possible to load both the bitmap and ttf version.
Solution 2
What I do here to get the glyphs I need working on urxvt is to add more fonts in the font list:
URxvt.font: xft:Ubuntu Mono:pixelsize=18:antialias=true:hinting=true,\
xft:Source Code Pro:pixelsize=18:style=medium:antialias=true,\
-*-unifont-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
It is still not perfect, though. I still can't get everything properly displayed in this file: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt
What helped the most so far with most unicode glyphs I use frequently was the inclusion of Unifont in the list. I hope it helps you in some way.
As for xterm, it doesn't support multiple fonts.
To discover which font provides a certain glyph, I use gucharmap (available on linux distros at least), hit Ctrl-f
, C-s-u <unicode codepoint>
(ex: C-s-u2713
which is ✓) and then I right-click on the glyph found and the app shows the name of the font used to render that specific glyph.
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Cole over 1 year
I've been having trouble viewing certain unicode symbols under urxvt or xterm. The font I'm using is
Source Code Pro for Powerline
which I installed through the powerline fonts repo. My.Xresources
contains the following:9 URxvt.font: xft:Source\ Code\ Pro\ for\ Powerline:pixelsize=22,xft:PowerlineSymbols 10 URxvt.scrollBar: false 11 12 Xft.dpi: 150 13 Xft.antialias: true 14 Xft.rgba: rgb 15 Xft.hinting: true 16 Xft.hintstyle: hintslight 17 18 XTerm*selectToClipboard: true 19 XTerm*termName: xterm-256color 20 XTerm*locale: true 21 XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true 22 UXTerm*faceName: Source Code Pro for Powerline:style=Medium 23 UXTerm*faceSize:10
but I still get funky behavior like in the following circumstances
$TERM
outputsrxvt-unicode-256color
Running
urxvt --help 2>&1 | grep options:
returnsiso14755
,unicode3
, andfrills
among other things.So I'm unsure why I still can't see some of these unicode symbols because I have all my bases covered? This is happening system-wide as I can't see certain symbols in Firefox either, so I think it has to be a font issue.
Thanks in advance!