Re: Stretch: FontAwesome not properly installed / not working?

2017-06-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017, Matthias Herrmann wrote:
> When I visit the font-awesome cheat sheet [1] and copy-paste a character

...

> (like , or  fa-envelope []) into gnome-shell or into another
> program, e.g. gedit, or thunderbird, it shows up as another character or
> the box with the hexvalues in them.

AFAIK, nothing based on the gnome terminal handling libs will work.

> What could be the issue?

AFAIK, GNOME's limited handling of fonts (libvte braindamage).

> What else could I check?
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

Look towards the end of the FiraCode README, on the works/doesn't work
tables.

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  Henrique Holschuh

Re: Stretch: FontAwesome not properly installed / not working?

2017-06-19 Thread Johann Spies 
On 19 June 2017 at 00:14, Matthias Herrmann  wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've got the following issue:
> When I visit the font-awesome cheat sheet [1] and copy-paste a character
> (like , or  fa-envelope []) into gnome-shell or into another
> program, e.g. gedit, or thunderbird, it shows up as another character or
> the box with the hexvalues in them.

I have copied the whole cheat sheet into emacs and everything seems OK.

I do not use Gnome. The rest of your tests of the installed fonts
seems to correspond with what I have.

Regards
Johann.


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