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djorr5

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Registered: 2021-02-07

Posts: 15

Using unicode for Icons in Panel - SOLVED

Hi gurus,

I am playing around with a new desktop look and I noticed in their scripts they use unicode for the icons in the panel. i.e.

memIcon=$(echo "\uf85a")

They mentioned in the instructions to install Nerd-Fonts and I have installed Hack Nerd fonts and run

fc-cache -fv

and even restarted but I cannot get the icon to show in the panel. It just shows \uF85A.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Last edited by djorr5 (2021-04-12 04:59:13)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: Using unicode for Icons in Panel - SOLVED

Who is "they" and what scripts are you referring to?

Taking a guess here, but you would probably need to pass the "-e" parameter to the echo command:

memIcon=$(echo -e "\uf85a")

From "man echo":

-e     enable interpretation of backslash escapes

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djorr5

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Registered: 2021-02-07

Posts: 15

Re: Using unicode for Icons in Panel - SOLVED

I got it sorted. I didn't have UTF-8 set for my LANG

LANG=en_AU

was all I had. I created locale.conf and set my LANG to

LANG=en_AU.UTF-8

Last edited by djorr5 (2021-04-12 04:58:10)