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Font configuration

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts

Font packages

Debian packages

  • fonts-powerline
  • fonts-font-awesome
  • fonts-fork-awesome
  • fonts-firacode (recommended by https://starship.rs/guide/#%F0%9F%9A%80-installation)

Nerdfonts

https://www.nerdfonts.com

Install custom fonts

i.e. Nerfont

cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v2.1.0/FiraCode.zip
unzip FiraCode.zip
mv Fira* /home/varac/.local/share/fonts/

Show available fonts

fc-list
fc-list | grep varac

Terminal unicode support tests

cat /home/varac/projects/unicode/UTF-8-demo.txt

Test support for powerline unicode chars

echo "\ue0b0 \u00b1 \ue0a0 \u27a6 \u2718 \u26a1 \u2699"
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Etc

https://github.com/gabrielelana/awesome-terminal-fonts

  • emoji-cli, a zsh plugin for emoji completion

Online emoji demo: https://eosrei.github.io/emojione-color-font/full-demo.html