Unicode character no longer displayed in Monaspace font after upgrading to 0.33.1 about kitty HOT 6 CLOSED

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Most likely the fallback font used for it on your system has changed. use symbol_map in kitty.conf to override it to some font that actually has that symbol, such as DejaVu Sans Mono or similar. Use --debug-font-fallback to see what font is actually being used.

I cant test it since Monascape isnt actually monospaced, it doesnt having spacing=100 as per fontconfig.

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Sorry, I sent it too fast. Updated everything now.

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Thanks!

Most likely the fallback font used for it on your system has changed.

Do you mean as part of the Kitty upgrade, or do you mean it was some external change that had nothing to do with the Kitty upgrade? (I tested it on two separate systems, and the change in behavior correlates exactly with the Kitty upgrade.)

Use --debug-font-fallback to see what font is actually being used.

Thanks, good tip. Just FYI, here is the output:

[082 09:08:58.527115] Preloaded font faces:
[082 09:08:58.527136] normal face: /Users/mkleiner/Library/Fonts/MonaspaceNeon-Light.otf
[082 09:08:58.527141] bold face: /Users/mkleiner/Library/Fonts/MonaspaceNeon-Bold.otf
[082 09:08:58.527145] italic face: /Users/mkleiner/Library/Fonts/MonaspaceRadon-Italic.otf
[082 09:08:58.527149] bi face: /Users/mkleiner/Library/Fonts/MonaspaceRadon-BoldItalic.otf
U+276f 
The font chosen by the OS for the text: U+276f is  but it does not actually contain glyphs for that text

It seems that instead of printing an actual fallback font, there is an empty string (see the two spaces between is but). I am not sure what that means.

use symbol_map in kitty.conf to override it to some font that actually has that symbol

This worked, thanks!

symbol_map U+276f Symbols Nerd Font

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And just because I was curious, I downgraded to 0.32.1. again and then run kitty --debug-font-fallback (without any symbol_map defined).

[082 09:16:39.143403] Preloaded font faces:
[082 09:16:39.143424] normal face: /Users/mkleiner/Library/Fonts/MonaspaceNeon-Light.otf
[082 09:16:39.143429] bold face: /Users/mkleiner/Library/Fonts/MonaspaceNeon-Bold.otf
[082 09:16:39.143434] italic face: /Users/mkleiner/Library/Fonts/MonaspaceRadon-Italic.otf
[082 09:16:39.143438] bi face: /Users/mkleiner/Library/Fonts/MonaspaceRadon-BoldItalic.otf
U+276f Face(family=Zapf Dingbats, full_name=Zapf Dingbats, postscript_name=ZapfDingbatsITC, path=/System/Library/Fonts/ZapfDingbats.ttf, units_per_em=2048, ascent=21.2, descent=4.6, leading=0.0, scaled_point_sz=26.0, underline_position=-2.6 underline_thickness=1.6) (new face)

Do you know why the new Kitty version would change that behavior?

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Follow up in #7249

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