#Powerline fonts codepoints update#

The following will set up for all users, a minimal resource usage for fonts. Per-user Configuration is made in ~/.nfbut it's hard to configure. This is in XML and describes which preferred font to use for these general types. See /etc/fonts/conf.d/README for details about the meaning behind the priority numbers.įor regular users, you want to create/edit your personal ~/.nf. This will be symlinked into /etc/fonts/conf.d. For package developers, /etc/fonts/conf.avail contains a fontconfig configuration file. This is where Fontconfig comes into place by substituting the general font type with a specific font that you like. Some applications do not specify a specific font to use but rather say sans-serif, serif, monospace.

#Powerline fonts codepoints update#

These selection will cover, in general Arabic, Thai, Ethiopic, Hebrew, Romanian, Persian, Korean Hangul, Greek, Persian, Russian/Slavic Cyrillic, Macedonian/Serbian, Armenian, Georgian, Lao, Devanagari, Urdu (Hindustani as in Northern India and Pakistan), Cherokee, Thaana languages support for desktop setups:Īpk add terminus-font font-bitstream-* font-noto font-noto-extra font-arabic-miscĪpk add font-misc-cyrillic font-mutt-misc font-screen-cyrillic font-winitzki-cyrillic font-cronyx-cyrillicĪpk add font-noto-arabic font-noto-armenian font-noto-cherokee font-noto-devanagari font-noto-ethiopic font-noto-georgianĪpk add font-noto-hebrew font-noto-lao font-noto-malayalam font-noto-tamil font-noto-thaana font-noto-thaiįc-cache -fv can be used to display the font locations and to update the cache. The following will add some partially supported Chinese fonts: These selections cover special Asiatic languages like Japanese, etc.:Īpk add terminus-font font-noto font-noto-thai font-noto-tibetan font-ipa font-sony-misc font-daewoo-misc font-jis-misc These selections add special support for cyrillic languages like Russian and Serbian, etc.:Īpk add font-vollkorn font-misc-cyrillic font-mutt-misc font-screen-cyrillic font-winitzki-cyrillic font-cronyx-cyrillic These selections will cover most languages and are a good fit for most setups:Īpk add terminus-font ttf-inconsolata ttf-dejavu font-bitstream-* font-noto font-noto-cjk ttf-font-awesome font-noto-extra according to the Wikipedia Page on languages for article translation.

Exceptions are Arabic, Persian, Thai, Tamil, etc. font-misc-misc is installed with Xorg, so fonts for most languages (Japanese, Korean, Latin, Cyrillic) are already covered. Default internal fb fonts (tty console) or xorg fonts (desktops) are suitable for a default installation.