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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