URXVT Won't Display Icons

[opafix]

I have Fontawesome and Powerline both installed through Portage. But for some reason, I cannot get URXVT (Or any other terminal emulator) to play nicely with icons. What am I missing?

See https://i.imgur.com/pyXgHGe.png for an example - all icons come out as an "a" with a circumflex accent...

[kitsunenokenja]

What's your output for

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$ locale

as the lack of UTF-8 is going to be responsible for this.

[opafix]

What's your output for

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$ locale

as the lack of UTF-8 is going to be responsible for this.

My locale was not set to UTF-8 - thank you very much! Now it shows squares instead of As....

see https://imgur.com/a/POriVI6

[The Main Man]

My locale was not set to UTF-8 - thank you very much! Now it shows squares instead of As....

see https://imgur.com/a/POriVI6

Squares are urxvt problem only.
You can try with other terminal.
I made ebuild with patches for urxvt, with that squares are gone and instead you can see icons, you can try that here:
https://github.com/kajzersoze/rxvt-unicode

[opafix]

My locale was not set to UTF-8 - thank you very much! Now it shows squares instead of As....

see https://imgur.com/a/POriVI6

Squares are urxvt problem only.
You can try with other terminal.
I made ebuild with patches for urxvt, with that squares are gone and instead you can see icons, you can try that here:
https://github.com/kajzersoze/rxvt-unicode

I've tried building from your repo and now it's back to the A circumflex. this happens in Xterm and URXVT.

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$ locale

outputs that everything is utf-8.

[The Main Man]

Try with different font then, I can tell you what I'm using, also if you have "URxvt.letterSpace" in your config delete it.

Download this font and install it :
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts ... chMono.zip

In your config put this :

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URxvt.font: xft:ShureTechMono Nerd Font:regular:pixelsize=15
URxvt.boldFont: xft:ShureTechMono Nerd Font:bold:pixelsize=15
URxvt.italicFont: xft:ShureTechMono Nerd Font:italic:pixelsize=15
URxvt.boldItalicfFnt: xft:ShureTechMono Nerd Font:bold:italic:pixelsize=15

[kitsunenokenja]

I mentioned just the locale since that was something I had to correct on a machine recently, and it was the only part of the puzzle that was missing. I use urxvt with a powerline patched font and it does work, so I'll nominate some of my options that may help you reach a solution.

Build flags (I imagine the last 3 enabled ones are crucial)

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[ebuild   R    ] x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.21::gentoo  USE="256-color focused-urgency font-styles mousewheel perl pixbuf startup-notification unicode3 wcwidth xft -alt-font-width -blink -buffer-on-clear -fading-colors -iso14755 -secondary-wheel -vanilla"

.Xresources font declaration (adjust accordingly, of course)

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URxvt.font: xft:InconsolataLGC Nerd Font Mono:size=11, xft:M+ 2m, xft:Symbola, xft:Code2000

When testing just remember to start a new shell explicitly after doing

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xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

to expedite testing new changes to .Xresources.

I do not have any patches in the build process that aren't already pulled in by the ebuild/portage.

All my locale env values are ja_JP.UTF-8 but any of the UTF-8's should do it. I'm using a handful of the popular powerline glyphs, including the gentoo logo itself thanks to the nerd font I'm using on the shell just fine, so rest assured it can be done.

[The Main Man]

@kitsunenokenja, have you tried the same settings with the latest 9.22 version ?
Some USE flags are dropped.

[kitsunenokenja]

@kitsunenokenja, have you tried the same settings with the latest 9.22 version ?
Some USE flags are dropped.

Haven't tried it yet since it's still marked unstable. Did upstream make worthwhile changes since last release?

[The Main Man]

Haven't tried it yet since it's still marked unstable. Did upstream make worthwhile changes since last release?

I started using rxvt since 9.22 so I can't answer your question, but I guess they did.
9.21 is pretty old, released in 2014, 9.22 was released in 2016

All I know is that I think I've tried everything possible to make that work in 9.22 (to have icons instead of squares), problem is not gentoo specific but it exists in other distros as well, until I tried patch from someone, which solved that problem. I don't know if issue was present in 9.21