Waybar:  character display ends each waybar colored block

[CaptainBloodz]

There this strange display of  character at the end of each colored block.
Default config file seems full of it.
Libreoffice character table reports:
Hexa U + 20
Decimal 1

My guess is that my system is missing something for proper display.
Any idea?

[Alexays]

You need to install the fontawesome-otf font :)

[CaptainBloodz]

media-fonts/fontawesome: The iconic font, I guess
Gentoo curenty have:
4.7.0
5.0.6
5.1.0
Any minimal version constraint there?

Additionnal guess is that it should be install whether libdbusmenu-gtk3 is installed or not?

Another depencency for the README maybe...

ThksBOQ

[Alexays]

No version constraint for fontawesome :)
And yes libdbusmenu-gtk3 is for the tray module

[Arnaudv6]

For what its worth: I use a custom font for my icons, and was hit by this problem:
a wild guess was that pango was searching for the space glyph which of course I did not fill.
I solved it having my icons in <span font=\"my font\"> tags. My spaces and text out, with default font.
Bump me if needed more precision: I am not on my machine now, but only answering from memory.

[weasnerb]

I can confirm that wrapping the custom icons in a <span font='my-font'> tag does fix this, however now when I hover over the items, the info that pops up in the middle of the screen includes the spans. This can be seen in the attached picture:

[rbnis]

Try using otf-font-awesome instead of the ttf version

[Arnaudv6]

You need to install the fontawesome-otf font :)

I overlooked the "otf" part of the name. Any rationnale for why .otf is required? Are there more feature imparities to expect?

[Alexays]

Look at https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/13067 for some informations.
Gtk try to use the font awesome space character just after the font awesome icons, but that's fail.

[Arnaudv6]

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/265