Add nerd font unicode to unicode search list

[Jake-Gillberg]

It would be nice to see the unicode characters I have installed (nerd font) searchable from the unicode input selector

Describe alternatives you've considered
Using the unicode vim selector (which also looks unsupported currently chrisbra/unicode.vim#39)

Additional context
Looks like there is a way to get a text list of nerd font characters: ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#448

[kovidgoyal]

Generate a text file of the form:

code point in hex symbol name

for example

eb1d right triangle

and post it here and I will take a look.

[Jake-Gillberg]

https://gitlab.com/jake.gillberg/nerd-fonts-glyph-list/-/raw/master/glyph-list.txt

[Jake-Gillberg]

Thanks! <3

[Finii]

There is now a glyph name list in Nerd Fonts

• Create a json database with css names ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#1137
• https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/glyphnames.json

which reflects the latest icon additions and will also reflect the drop of the offending glyphs in the Arab and CJK blocks with the next release.

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@Finii
Thanks for the heads up.

I recently updated the list of symbol names in kitty to nerd fonts 2.3.3.
Since you informed about another way to get the names, I compared the data in that JSON and found some issues.

• Missing U+E323 weather night alt rain mix. This is a completely different symbol from U+E236, but has the same name. So it is overwritten by the latter one.
• The correct codepoint for oct device desktop is U+F4A9, not the incorrect one in JSON: U+F67C (mdi comment alert).

There are many icons in there that are similar, and I would prefer to use Unicode codepoint instead of Unicode characters in JSON to make it easier to distinguish.

[Finii]

Thanks for the input!

Changed the script to include the codepoints like this (unless you have a better idea):

{
  "METADATA": {
    "website": "https://www.nerdfonts.com",
    "development-website": "https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts",
    "version": "2.3.3",
    "date": "2023-03-12 18:51:14+00:00"
  },
  "cod-account": {
    "char": "",
    "code": "eb99"
  },
  "cod-activate_breakpoints": {
    "char": "",
    "code": "ea97"
  },

Tackling the issue over there.