Spaceship-prompt: Package icon isn't rendering

[eyalch]

Issue

Get inside a directory with a Node package.

I already saw #378 and What's the weird character in front of a section? wasn't helpful.

Font: FiraMono

Environment

Spaceship version: 3.3.0
Zsh version: 5.4.2
Zsh framework: oh-my-zsh
Zsh plugin manager: None
Terminal emulator: gnome-terminal
Operating system: Linux

[salmanulfarzy]

Unicode symbols are handled by the respective terminal emulators, It's not an issue with the theme.

You could try setting the character encoding on GNOME-Terminal.

[eyalch]

It's already UTF-8.

[salmanulfarzy]

Sorry, There is nothing we can do about it. gnome-terminal is handling the icon rendering. There was a suggestion to install Noto font in Linux in #202.

[eyalch]

I knew that the issue is probably not with the Spaceship theme, I was just looking for some help.

Do you know of any other solution that would let me keep using my current font? Maybe another terminal emulator? (preferably not Hyper)

[maximbaz]

This looks like a glyph is missing from the font itself, you need to search how to configure font fallbacks with fontconfig. It allows to define a primary font, and use a fallback font only for those glyphs that are not present in the primary font.

[eyalch]

OK, so "font fallbacks" sounded good to me so I went and searched stuff about it and about fontconfig. After too much time searching I made no progress.

The solution (for me) was to just install Google's Noto Emoji font (which in Arch is pacman -S noto-fonts-emoji). There are colors too!

I really think you should at least add it the the README, that'll save others a lot of time.

Also, notice I didn't mention any configuration - there wasn't any.

[maximbaz]

What you achieved is exactly the font fallback 😃 The fontconfig configuration is bundled with the noto-fonts-emoji (see *.conf files here), that's why you didn't have to do anything manually.

By the way, I maintain ttf-emojione package on AUR which also comes with the proper fontconfig configurations.