> Hi Guix, > > I can't seem to get Unicode fonts to display in Icecat (and > Emacs...and really everywhere else too). I'm not a font wizard, so I'm > unsure how to resolve this issue. I've installed both of these packages: > > - font-dejavu > - font-liberation > > Then I ran "fc-cache -f" and rebooted my machine. Still, I'm not seeing > anything change unfortunately. I just get empty boxes where Unicode > symbols should be displayed. > > Am I missing the correct font package? Do I need to edit a config file > somewhere? Any advice would be appreciated.
Are you running Guix on top of another distribution? I had to add the veriable XDG_DATA_DIRS to the environment, specifically XDG_DATA_DIRS=$HOME/.guix-profile/share:/usr/share for Guix running on Debian. The variable was set automagically full Guix systems. HTH, jr
