I3status-rust: Fonts not recognized

[bezze]

I've installed ttf-font-awesome-4 from the AUR yet my bar looks weird. It seems like the arrow thingies between blocks are not being recongnized properly.

Am I doing something wrong? Any clues?

[atheriel]

See if some of the discussion/suggestions in #130 work for you.

[yaymukund]

I experience the same issue on sway, i3status-rust 0.9, and ttf-font-awesome 4.7.0-5. It looks just like bezze's. I took a screenshot with my phone like it's 1998

[yaymukund]

Solved it by installing powerline or changing theme.overrides.separator

[droslean]

Same issue here,
Installing powerline doesn't seem to solve the problem.

[bezze]

Hey, just wanted to let you know. I suspect this is not awesome-font related nor i3status-rust related. I think this has something to do with utf-8 at a system level. If I enter the symbols manually using their codes I can see every Awesome symbol. Furthermore, the problematic symbols are from the U+E000 to U+E0FF series, particularly the U+E0B2. Yet some unicode symbols appear correctly, for example, the U+AC00 to U+ACFF. Here's a sample.

Please confirm if this is your case. My problem seems to be distro related (Arch Linux), so I'll seek help over there. If anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears.

[yaymukund]

@bezze It's very possible I have my terminal setup incorrectly, but none of those symbols work for me in terminal. I'm running, oh termite v13 with ttf-font-awesome-4 4.7.0-5, powerline-common 2.6-1, and powerline-fonts 2.6-1, also on Arch Linux.

Have you had a chance to try installing powerline-fonts or changing theme.overrides.separator?

@droslean oh no! that's a pity :(

[droslean]

After installing powerline-fonts, just refreshing i3 is not working. Reboot is required.
After reboot, everything worked fine. :)

[bezze]

Ok, this was fixed by @droslean suggestion. Installing powerline-fonts and rebooting did the trick.

note: I actually had powerline-common and powerline packages installed, but not the fonts one. All of them are in the Arch Linux community repo. Is this package a dependency I missed?

btw, HUGE thanks guys