Try installing fontconfig if not installed already and then refresh the
font cache with

fc-cache -f

or

fc-cache -vfr

Relevant past discussions:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-11/msg00477.html

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-05/msg00021.html

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-02/msg00020.html

HTH,

Niall

Niall

On 21 August 2017 at 05:06, Fredrik Salomonsson <plattfot@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Guix,
>
> Working on setting up a dual boot with Guix+Arch Linux and GuixSD. Got it
> running in Arch but having some issues with fonts in emacs. In my org mode
> I have
> set org-ellipsis to ⤵ (0x2935)
>
> Opening up emacs installed with pacman it renders correctly and doing C-u
> C-x = over the character it tells me that it's using the font
>
>> display:
>>
> xft:-PfEd-DejaVu Serif-normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1
>> (#xBB6)
>>
>
> But opening up emacs installed with guix I just get a rectangle with the
> unicode in it instead of the arrow. Doing C-u C-x = on it shows:
>
>> display: no font available
>>
>
> I have font-dejavu, font-awesome, font-hack and font-gnu-freefont-ttf
> install in guix.
> My emacs config file is here:
> https://github.com/plattfot/dotemacs/blob/master/init.d/configuration.org
>
> Using http://bluejamesbond.github.io/CharacterMap/
> and browsing to .guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype/DejaVuSerif.ttf
> I can see the character (index 2998, unicode 2935) so I'm not missing the
> font.
>
> The weird part is that it's picking up Hack just fine. So I'm not sure
> what I'm missing.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> s/Fred[re]+i[ck]+/Fredrik/g
>