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 -- fREW Schmidt https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com
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