To my knowledge, st also supports fallback fonts via fontconfig, just
the same as xfce4-terminal.
I can't test it for you because I obviously don't have the proper font
installed to display that magnify glass. I just installed
xfce4-terminal to do a quick test, but it can't show the glyph either.
I think it is more advisable to find out what (icon) font can display
that particular unicode you want. This is in my opinion less a problem
of the terminal emulator than the choice of font.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 5:11 PM Enan Ajmain <3nan.ajmain_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm also using Monaco for xfce4-terminal. But I guess xfce4-terminal
> implicitly handles unicode symbol errors and such. I'll try to try out
> every fonts in my cache, but it would be exhausting.
>
> By the way, I tried to launch st from another st instance and did
> `echo $'\U1F50D'`. The new st instance crashed and the output in the
> old st instance was the following.
>
> ```
> X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or
> internal Xlib length error)
> Major opcode of failed request: 139 (RENDER)
> Minor opcode of failed request: 20 (RenderAddGlyphs)
> Serial number of failed request: 1353
> Current serial number in output stream: 1392
> ```
>
> Maybe this error catch could provide some insight?
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 9:50 PM Erika Mannerheim
> <erika.ann.mannerheim_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > It's probably because the monaco font you are using in st doesn't
> > cover that unicode range.
> > You have to figure out what font can display that character. Maybe you
> > can find out what font your xfce terminal is actually using and update
> > your st config.h correspondingly?
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:35 PM Enan Ajmain <3nan.ajmain_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > I am using the current HEAD of the st repository. My personal
> > > configurations are here:
> > > https://github.com/enanajmain/st/blob/enan/config.h.
> > >
> > > I'm trying to display the following icon '\U1F50D', but it doesn't
> > > show in ST terminal. But it appears properly in xfce4-terminal. I have
> > > checked with some other unicode characters and it seems like that ST
> > > can show upto a range of unicode characters. Unicode characters have
> > > two ranges, for the first range you have to use `\u`, a lowercase `u`,
> > > whereas for the second range, you've to use `\U`, an uppercase `u`.
> > >
> > > I cannot figure out what is the problem. Maybe I need to use some
> > > specfic fonts. It would be great I could get some help fixing this.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Enan Ajmain
> > >
> >
>
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