On Sat, 27 Nov 2021 21:28:05 -0500 The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 2021-11-27 at 21:08, Celejar wrote: > > > On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:50:29 -0600 > > Nate Bargmann <n...@n0nb.us> wrote: > > > >> * On 2021 26 Nov 11:36 -0600, Celejar wrote: > > >>> I finally got tired of seeing tofu for some of the glyphs in your sig, > >>> so I looked up their Unicode codepoints: > >> > >> Interestingly, I see the glyphs in Mutt running in Gnome Terminal and in > >> Vim as I edit this in the same Gnome Terminal. My font is one > >> installed locally, Droid Sans Mono Slashed which provides the zero > >> character with a slash. > >> > >> I know that there is keyboard sequence in Gnome Terminal (Ctl-Shift-E > >> then Space) to bring up a menu to select Unicode glyphs. > >> > >> 🐮 > > > > I'm pretty sure Droid Sans Mono Slashed doesn't have the glyphs in > > question, and that you must actually have the noto or similar fonts > > installed, with some part of the Gnome infrastructure finding them when > > you select the glyphs. What does "fc-list | grep noto" show? > > If my own system is any guide, that may be an overly broad sort of > question. > > $ fc-list | wc -l > 2479 Well, I didn't ask for that one. > $ fc-list | grep noto | wc -l > 1847 Huh. Our systems must be very different: ~$ fc-list | grep noto | wc -l 1 ~$ fc-list | grep noto /usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoColorEmoji.ttf: Noto Color Emoji:style=Regular > $ fc-list | grep -v noto | wc -l > 632 > > Asking for the output of something that produces potentially thousands > of lines may be slightly ill-advised (although asking the user to check > that output and report back might be another story, and now that I look > back it's not entirely clear which of the two you were intending). I confess that it simply didn't occur to me that some systems would be so different from mine. I concede that that may have been a naive assumption ;) > The above is with the following installed package set: > > dpkg -l "fonts-noto*" | grep ^ii > ii fonts-noto-core 20201225-1 all "No Tofu" font > families with large Unicode coverage (core) > ii fonts-noto-extra 20201225-1 all "No Tofu" font > families with large Unicode coverage (extra) > ii fonts-noto-mono 20201225-1 all "No Tofu" monospaced > font family with large Unicode coverage > ii fonts-noto-ui-core 20201225-1 all "No Tofu" font > families with large Unicode coverage (UI core) > > I don't think I was aware that there are color versions, and I certainly > don't think I'd want them. > > (FWIW, with this set installed, I see actual glyphs rather than the > "tofu' for each of the four in Jonathan Dowland's .sig - although I > can't actually quite tell what the second one is, even at full > enlargement.) Celejar
