Re: [External] : Re: missing a character / font in agenda?

2022-08-06 Thread Ihor Radchenko
Max Nikulin writes: > Another approach would be assuming reasonable set of modern fonts and > providing some defcustom to switch to legacy compatibility mode. This whole thread is about a single defcustom already. I do not see much point providing yet another defcustom on top.

Re: [External] : Re: missing a character / font in agenda?

2022-08-05 Thread Max Nikulin
On 05/08/2022 13:15, Ihor Radchenko wrote: Max Nikulin writes: DejaVuSansMono has at least - "\u{21fd}" "⇽" LEFTWARDS OPEN-HEADED ARROW https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=21fd - "\u{2190}" "←" LEFTWARDS ARROW https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=2190 from

Re: [External] : Re: missing a character / font in agenda?

2022-08-05 Thread Ihor Radchenko
Max Nikulin writes: > DejaVuSansMono has at least > - "\u{21fd}" "⇽" LEFTWARDS OPEN-HEADED ARROW > https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=21fd > - "\u{2190}" "←" LEFTWARDS ARROW > https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=2190 > from

Re: [External] : Re: missing a character / font in agenda?

2022-07-18 Thread Max Nikulin
On 17/07/2022 15:58, Ihor Radchenko wrote: Juan Manuel Macías writes: I think LEFTWARDS ARROW / #2190 of the 'arrows' Unicode block is much more common: Thanks for testing! I now changed org-agenda to use LEFTWARDS ARROW in b4a72ddf9. This does not completely solve the reported problem but

Re: [External] : Re: missing a character / font in agenda?

2022-07-18 Thread Daniel Ortmann
I am not seeing the problem anymore after installing the Symbola fonts. On 7/16/22 04:15, Ihor Radchenko wrote: Daniel Ortmann writes: More information on that character: position: 195 of 690 (28%), column: 26     character: ⭠ (displayed as ⭠) (codepoint 11104,

Re: [External] : Re: missing a character / font in agenda?

2022-07-17 Thread Ihor Radchenko
Juan Manuel Macías writes: > I think LEFTWARDS ARROW / #2190 of the 'arrows' Unicode block is much > more common: Thanks for testing! I now changed org-agenda to use LEFTWARDS ARROW in b4a72ddf9. This does not completely solve the reported problem but at least less users will suffer from it.

Re: [External] : Re: missing a character / font in agenda?

2022-07-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 13/07/2022 07:26, Stefan Kangas wrote: Ihor Radchenko writes: I think this should be considered a bug, since the glyph used (LEFTWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW / #2b60) is not present in most fonts. If that is true (I don't know) then maybe we should just use a more ubiquitous glyph?

Re: [External] : Re: missing a character / font in agenda?

2022-07-13 Thread Juan Manuel Macías
Stefan Kangas writes: > If that is true (I don't know) then maybe we should just use a more > ubiquitous glyph? I have done a quick test with some fonts that are ---I believe--- quite popular. This character is missing from DejaVu Sans Mono, Iosevka, Source Pro, Fira Code and Hack. JuliaMono

Re: [External] : Re: missing a character / font in agenda?

2022-07-13 Thread Greg Minshall
for what it's worth, without the symbola font on my machine (though i've now added it), i seem to see the left-arrow 2b60 rendered using: ftcrhb:-GNU-Unifont-normal-normal-normal-Sans-Serif-16-*-*-*-c-80-iso10646-1 (#x2B61) (if i'm interpreting the output of [C-u C-x =] correctly.)

Re: [External] : Re: missing a character / font in agenda?

2022-07-12 Thread Stefan Kangas
Ihor Radchenko writes: >>> I think this should be considered a bug, since the glyph used (LEFTWARDS >>> TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW / #2b60) is not present in most fonts. If that is true (I don't know) then maybe we should just use a more ubiquitous glyph? > The commit is supposed to fall back to

Re: [External] : Re: missing a character / font in agenda?

2022-07-12 Thread Ihor Radchenko
Daniel Ortmann writes: > Ihor, > What are your thoughts? > > On 7/12/22 15:03, Juan Manuel Macías wrote: >> Juan Manuel Macías writes: >> >>> The most reasonable thing would be to use a more >>> common symbol. But I'm still intrigued by the origin of that symbol... >> It seems that the culprit

Re: [External] : Re: missing a character / font in agenda?

2022-07-12 Thread Daniel Ortmann
Ihor, What are your thoughts? On 7/12/22 15:03, Juan Manuel Macías wrote: Juan Manuel Macías writes: The most reasonable thing would be to use a more common symbol. But I'm still intrigued by the origin of that symbol... It seems that the culprit is in line 1592 of org-agenda.el I think

Re: [External] : Re: missing a character / font in agenda?

2022-07-12 Thread Juan Manuel Macías
Juan Manuel Macías writes: > The most reasonable thing would be to use a more > common symbol. But I'm still intrigued by the origin of that symbol... It seems that the culprit is in line 1592 of org-agenda.el I think this should be considered a bug, since the glyph used (LEFTWARDS

Re: [External] : Re: missing a character / font in agenda?

2022-07-12 Thread Juan Manuel Macías
Hi, Daniel, Daniel Ortmann writes: > – Would using the ASCII '<' character be a better solution? I've done a quick test and a few very popular (and more or less complete) fonts don't include a glyph for the LEFTWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW #2b60 character: DejavuSans, Iosevka, Hack Source Code

Re: [External] : Re: missing a character / font in agenda?

2022-07-12 Thread Daniel Ortmann
That odd new character just showed up after a normal daily org-mode 'git pull'. The Symbola.ttf font worked fine. I used this page for for instructions. https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-and-manage-fonts-on-linux After copying the font to ~/.local/share/font/ and running the 'fc-cache