From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Niall Dooley Subject: Re: Package Installation Queries Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 17:22:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87a89wz9qx.fsf@gmail.com> <87inoiifvm.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53109) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cf7mW-0004VD-D0 for Help-Guix@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2017 11:22:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cf7mV-0006Op-ET for Help-Guix@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2017 11:22:44 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-x22c.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::22c]:36123) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cf7mV-0006OZ-7Y for Help-Guix@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2017 11:22:43 -0500 Received: by mail-wm0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id c85so41280275wmi.1 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2017 08:22:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87inoiifvm.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Alex Kost Cc: Help-Guix@gnu.org On 10 February 2017 at 09:55, Alex Kost wrote: > > Niall Dooley (2017-02-09 22:36 +0100) wrote: > > > On 8 February 2017 at 21:51, Alex Kost wrote: > [...] > >> > (3) Before installing Guix I used SCP as my font for Emacs. However, > >> > following the installation of SCP via Guix some unicode glyphs are > >> > not rendered correctly as they were before. Note, I did a fresh > >> > install of my foreign distro before installing Guix and did not > >> > re-install SCP on it. Is there further steps I need to perform to > >> > have these unicode glyphs rendered correctly? > >> > >> What unicode symbols are not displayed correctly for you? If I > >> understood correctly, SCP is a font and you installed it with Guix, > >> right? What name does this (SCP) package have in Guix? > > > > Yes, sorry SCP := Source Code Pro, and yes I've installed it via Guix using > > Guix package name font-adobe-source-code-pro. Examples of unicode > > characters which were displaying correctly before but not now include: > > U+232B, U+2326, U+23CE. Reading about this subject some more > > these characters may not in fact be available in SCP but were rather supplied > > by another available font. > > Yeah, I think these chars are not supported by this font. Emacs > displays U+232B and U+2326 with "Symbola" font for me, and U+23CE is > unrecognized (Symbola and any other font I have do not support it). > > BTW Symbola package can't be a part of Guix due to a really stupid > license problem. If you are interested, I have a Guix package for this > font here: > > https://github.com/alezost/guix-config/blob/master/packages/fonts.scm > That would be great, can you explain how I can make use of your package?