Broken UTF-8 fonts in insert-char

[liar666]

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• I have searched the issue tracker, documentation, FAQ, Discourse, and Google, in case this issue has already been reported/resolved.

• I have read "How to Debug Issues", and will use it to provide as much information about this issue as possible.

• The issue can be reproduced on the latest available commit of Doom.

• The issue can be reproduced on a stable release of Emacs, such as 27, 28, or 29. (Unstable versions end in .50, .60, or .9x)

Expected behavior

Pretty fonts (nerd fonts) work correctly everywhere.

Current behavior

[ search for ''icons display' "icons minibuffer" in the issues and couldn't find a solution]

What I'm doing: trying to insert a UTF-8 char with "C-x 8 Ret" (insert-char)

Nerds font work:

• in Dashboard
• inside buffers
• in powerline

But do not work in

• minibuffer

See screenshot:

• I've tried to reinstall nerd-fonts & all-the-icons,
• I've upgraded/cleaned/synced/reloaded DoomEmacs.
  In some cases the fonts break in even more places (e.g. buffers), but minibuffer is always broken.

NOTE: using nerd-icons-insert seems to work

So the problem might be in insert-char rather than minibuffer

Steps to reproduce

1. open a buffer
2. M-x insert-char
3. Type ANT for instance

System Information

https://pastebin.com/Yqeas4xD

[hpfr]

#7448 is expected to fix this. Give it a try if you can.

[liar666]

I configured the whole sandbox thing, but it still does not work here...

$ DOOMPROFILE=sandbox doom sync
> Tangling your literate config...
  ✓ Done tangling 1 file(s)!
> Synchronizing "sandbox" profile...
  > Installing packages...
    - No packages need to be installed
  > (Re)building packages...
    - No packages need rebuilding
  > Purging orphaned packages (for the emperor)...
    - Skipping builds
    - Skipping elpa packages
    - Skipping repos
    - Skipping regrafting
  > (Re)building profile in /home/user/.local/share/doom/sandbox/@/0/...
    > Deleting old init files...
    > Generating 4 init files...
    > Byte-compiling ~/.local/share/doom/sandbox/@/0init.28.el...
    ✓ Built init.28.elc
  - Restart Emacs or use 'M-x doom/reload' for changes to take effect
✓ Finished in 1.19546s

$ \emacs --profile sandbox --debug-init
Loading /home/user/.emacs.d/profiles/load.28.elc...
Loading /home/user/.emacs.d/profiles/load.28.elc...done
Loading /home/user/.config/emacs-doom-upstream/lisp/doom.el (source)...
Loading /home/user/.config/emacs-doom-upstream/lisp/doom.el (source)...done
* 0.008779:*:load: doom-start nil
* 0.011046:*:hook:doom-before-init-hook: run doom--begin-init-h
* 0.011063::context: +init (t)
* 0.011193:*:init:load: ~/.config/doom-sandbox/init t

The only thing I changed in the config was (I don't have the Fira fonts installed):

(setq
    doom-font (font-spec :family "UbuntuMono Nerd Font Mono" :size 17 :weight 'semi-light)
    doom-unicode-font (font-spec :family "UbuntuMono Nerd Font Mono" :size 17 :weight 'medium)
    doom-symbol-font (font-spec :family "UbuntuMono Nerd Font Mono" :size 17 :weight 'medium)
    doom-variable-pitch-font (font-spec :family "UbuntuMono Nerd Font" :size 15)
)

Result:

[hpfr]

The sandbox shouldn’t really be necessary now that the fix is merged. You are not having issues there with Nerd Fonts icons but rather emoji. Do you have an emoji font like Noto Color Emoji installed? If it is something other than Noto Color Emoji, you may need to (setq doom-emoji-font "Emoji Font Family"). You can also drop doom-unicode-font as that was replaced by doom-symbol-font.

[liar666]

Thanks! doom-emoji-font did resolve the problem!

[liar666]

The problem came back today, when I upgraded DoomEmacs :(

• doom-emoji-font is still set at the beginning of config.org
• and I have (emoji +ascii +github +unicode) ; in init.el...

Also, I have noticed that it does not work in *doom:scratch* by default, but when I switch this buffer from its default org-mode to fundamental-mode then is works (and when I switch it back to org-mode it does not work again), whereas it works in standard .org files... Really strange....

[hpfr]

If you disable the emoji module does it go away?