On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 03:40:09AM +0100, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote:
> fREW Schmidt said:
> > > Just choose proper font, eg.:
> > >
> > > perl -E'binmode(STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)"); say "\N{HEAVY BLACK HEART}"' | dmenu -fn "-*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1"
> > >
> >
> > Shoot; I don't have that font. Is there a handy way to find out which
> > fonts I have that work for this stuff?
>
> You can use xfontsel (interactive) or fslsfonts (non-interactive) to
> check for iso10646-1 fonts. Once you have a list you may want to try
> several fonts with xfd to see whether they have the symbols you need.
I'll do that.
> FWIW I just can't believe you don't have dejavu fonts - they appear to
> be included basicly with every Unix-like system these days.
Well, I do have dejavu, but that exact string you said yeilds
"warning: cannot load font". Thanks, I'll let you know how it goes
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fREW Schmidt
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