Arch Icons broken?

[TheBabu]

Hello, I am currently using Arch Linux and today I have noticed that some of my icons are missing or changed, for instance all of the icons that existed in my polybar are now missing,
Broken state:


Original State:

Even though the icons do not show in polybar they do seem to show in termite the terminal emulator, but they are still not the correct icons:
Broken State:

Original State:
Cannot find a screenshot of these icons but they are most definitely not correct, I simply copy pasted these icons from here:http://fontawesome.io/cheatsheet/ and it seems like they have not changed.

The icons suddenly broke, I may have done an update of some type and then rebooted which caused this.

Thanks for any help!

[Hi-Angel]

Same here. FTR, here's a reddit discussion on the topic.

[tagliala]

Is this somehow related to #10102 ?

[Hi-Angel]

Mhm, sorry, I personally don't have enough expertise to tell certainly, however the difference I see is that OP from #10102 just did something, and now it doesn't work, and also it was in 2016 year; whereas the current issue is about regression between 4.7.0 and 5.0.2, and is in fact reproducible back and forth by (up|down)grading the font-awesome, and restarting apps.

[tagliala]

5.0.2 and 4.7.0 are not compatible.

5.0.2 is based on three files: one with bold weight (solid), one with normal weight (regular), one with brands

Icon names are different, so you cannot simply upgrade from 4.7.0 to 5.0.2 without changing internals

[Hi-Angel]

Ok, I think you're right. For some reason I couldn't make i3bar working with the new naming of fonts, and lack of font-related debug output doesn't help either. However I think Font-Awesome per se is alright because on the linked reddit topic peoples who are using polybar managed to make it working by simply changing the name from FontAwesome to FontAwesome5Free and FontAwesome5Brands, and the fact it's not working for some app out there is not a concern of a font per se.

[TheBabu]

Downgrading to Font Awesome 4 did the trick, I guess this is an issue with naming, and I'll deal with that later, :P

[cheng93]

This worked for me (for polybar)

font-2 = FontAwesome5Free
font-3 = FontAwesome5Free:style=Solid

and I assume if you want to use brands use FontAwesome5Brands

fc-list
fc-match

to help debug

[Hi-Angel]

@cheng93 it's specific to polybar.

[TheBabu]

Huh, this is kinda weird fc-list gives me this:

And fc-match also gives me this:

Everything seems to be spaced out...
(My icons are still working because I haven't started a new instance of it)

[TheBabu]

Meh, closing this issue because this seems to be a lot of changes that were expected, not bugs of any sort...