Quit suddenly when Chinese charaters are involved about kitty HOT 8 CLOSED

The error means that fontconfig is unable to find a font to display that character. WHat does running the following on your system return?

fc-match query 'monospace:charset=597d:scalable=true:outline=true' -f '%{file} %{hinting} %{hintstyle}'

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Sorry, I got the command wrong, above, this is the correct one:

fc-match  monospace:charset=597d:scalable=true:outline=true

On my system it returns,

arialuni.ttf: "Arial Unicode MS" "Regular"

And kitty renders those characters fine.

from kitty.

Most likely you dont have a ttf/otf font on your system capable of rendering that character. Install one and you should be fine. Presumably Terminator falls back to using bitmap fonts -- kitty currently does not do that.

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In my system, it returns:

$ fc-match  'monospace:charset=597d:scalable=true:outline=true'
Unable to parse the pattern

Additional fonts already intalled in my system are showed below, but I can't find a monospace font works for English and Chinese both.

$ ls ~/.fonts
arialbd.ttf  arial.ttf   courbi.ttf  mplus-fonts-master  msyh.ttc     simkai.ttf   timesbi.ttf  ubuntu-mono
arialbi.ttf  ariblk.ttf  couri.ttf   msyhbd.ttc          simfang.ttf  simsun.ttc   timesi.ttf   wps-office
ariali.ttf   courbd.ttf  cour.ttf    msyhl.ttc           simhei.ttf   timesbd.ttf  times.ttf    zfull-for-yosemite-master

I also tried tons of font, including Arial Unicode MS, just the similar error

subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['fc-match', 'Arial Unicode MS:charset=597d:scalable=true:outline=true', '-f', '%{file}\x1e%{hinting}\x1e%{hintstyle}']' returned non-zero exit status 1
[glfw error]  The GLFW library is not initialized

It seems that the font does not matter?! In my mind, Chinese can be rendered by Mono in Libreoffice, Sublime and other terminals.

from kitty.

fontconfig on your system is too old, update it and you should be fine.

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In the end, I find Inziu Iosevka CL is what I want and it works perfectly. Thanks!

from kitty.

You dont need a font with both english and chinese -- kitty searches for fallback fonts when the primary font does not contain the glyphs it needs. The problem is that on your system, the fontconfig version is too old, so it is not understanding the :charset command line argument used to search for the fallback font.

But, since you found a font with the coverage you need, you dont have to worry about it.

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Thanks a lot! I can use monospace after updating the codes

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