Hello Ekaitz, On Mon, May 26 2025, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote:
> On 2025-05-26 16:03, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: [...] >> I'm experiencing a strange behaviour with UTF-8 symbols in all Guix >> System installed apps I'm testing that I do not experience with the same >> apps installed on Debian (via guix as a package manager). [...] > I'm going to answer with something probably very stupid but are you sure > the font that is displaying the battery is DejaVu? Not stupid at all!!! > I think they are falling back to some font that actually has the > symbol. Oh my!!! Yes! The "font subsystem" falls back to the first (in what order?) font that actually have that symbol Please do you (or any other reader) know where is the "font fallback" mechanism documented? I never thought that font rendering do a fall back, I need to understand how... > For example: Noto. > > I have your very same symbol in the i3 bar and I think it comes from the > Noto font. ....almost! :-) I installed "font-google-noto" and (afrer login/logout) my i3status bar started displaying the "wifi" and "ethernet" symbols... but not "battery"; the same happened when opening https://unicodeplus.com/U+1F50B in chromium > I had some missing gliphs in the past but since I installed it they > worked. Also Unifont has all of them, but it's kind of a weird font (I > like it a lot). Oh yes! Installing "font-gnu-unifont" solved "the battery symbol problem" both in i3status bar, chomium, pluma... And yes, I find GNU Unifont _symbols_ *very* well done. Ekaitz you saved my day: thank you very much for your "stupid" answer! :-D Happy hacking! Gio' -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures
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