Re: [External] : Re: missing a character / font in agenda?

[Daniel Ortmann]

    That odd new character just showed up after a normal daily org-mode
    'git pull'.
    
    The Symbola.ttf font worked fine.
    I used this page for for instructions.
    https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-and-manage-fonts-on-linux
    
    After copying the font to ~/.local/share/font/ and running the
    'fc-cache -vf' command
    ... The font appears after emacs + org-mode are restarted.
    (I did not need to run set-fontset-font.)
    
    Somewhere in there I also pulled fresh org-mode and emacs code and
    rebuilt; am not sure if that was needed.
    
    Here is how that screen now appears:

• Would using the ASCII '<' character be a better solution? 
• Is anyone else seeing this issue and missing font?
• What would allow that Symbola font to be available?
  
• Is that Symbola font, or equivalent, now a true dependency?  Or is there something more common which I should be using?  (Perhaps I have missed a normal configuration step?)
  

    Thank you!

On 7/12/22 12:58, Juan Manuel Macías wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Daniel Ortmann writes:
>
> > Any clues where this particular symbol resides?  A hint about the
> > package name would wonderful.  :-)
> >       
> To be able to display "unusual" symbols in Emacs, I usually use the
> symbola font:
>
> You can download it here:
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/symbola__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!LCWutd87ZOlNkSgFTjjR0zYsqhv6xP6ZBep63lyK7tIveH2MWiQ331YB8rJexEVU6gjcjT99EdYoJvFPvxABlZvT$ 
>
> And then:
>
> (set-fontset-font t 'symbol (font-spec :family "Symbola"))
>
> But I think that what is interesting here is to know how that character
> has arrived. Could it be related to some new package you have installed
> lately?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juan Manuel
>