Error usable ISO8859 font

[imamdigmi]

Hi! this is great bitmap font, and I would like to install it on my computer (Arch Linux), I follow your installation instruction but I got this error :

Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font                              
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Error: Aborting: no font found

so, what should I do to solve it? thanks!

[stark]

Hi there ! Few queries:

• When and where are you getting this error ?
• Where have you installed siji ?
• Can you please run the command xset q | curl -sLT- p.iotek.org in a terminal, post the link here ?

[imamdigmi]

Hi @stark sorry for late response

• When I run ./view.sh after install from install.sh
• I install siji from this repo and build from source

➜ ./install.sh
[OK] Found directory: /home/idiot/.fonts
[OK] Compiling siji.bdf
[OK] Updating font cache... Please Wait 
[OK] Finished. Your font cache has been updated 

  Successfully installed siji.pcf -> /home/idiot/.fonts
  Add the following snippet in your /home/idiot/.xinitrc:

    xset +fp /home/idiot/.fonts
    xset fp rehash

  If it already exists then you can skip this step.

• Sure this is the link https://p.iotek.org/fa7

Thankyou!

[AhmedAA]

I get the same error.

I can also run the cURL command, I get https://p.iotek.org/c8f

I installed the font through AUR on arch linux, using yaourt as my AUR helper.

[imamdigmi]

Actually, the font is installed properly, but sometimes I wanna show the glyps on terminal.
@AhmedAA you can run this command to ensure that font is installed succesfull :

fc-list | grep Wuncon

If an output like this :

/home/<username>/.fonts/siji.pcf: Wuncon Siji:style=Regular

the font is has been installed successfull, and you can use it with mention Wuncon Siji in your config.

[AhmedAA]

@imamdigmi
thanks :)

i know i have it, and i know it is correctly installed.
i dont know what the unicode shortcode is for different symbols. thats my issue :)

i cant seem to find a list anywhere either.

[AntouanK]

@imamdigmi I had the same problem.
Seems like using "Wuncon Siji" instead of siji is the solution.

$ fc-match siji
Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman"

$ fc-match "Wuncon Siji"
siji.pcf: "Wuncon Siji" "Regular"

BUT, in the default example config, the font is set as siji

font-2 = siji:pixelsize=12;1

I get warnings and see no icons.
If I replace siji with "Wuncon Siji" in that line, I still see the warnings

warn: Dropping unmatched character  (U+e26f)
warn: Dropping unmatched character  (U+e028)
warn: Dropping unmatched character  (U+e026)
warn: Dropping unmatched character  (U+e19c)
warn: Dropping unmatched character  (U+e016)
warn: Dropping unmatched character  (U+e10c)
warn: Dropping unmatched character  (U+e26f)
warn: Dropping unmatched character  (U+e028)
warn: Dropping unmatched character  (U+e026)
warn: Dropping unmatched character  (U+e19c)
...

and none of the icons are loaded in the bar.

What am I doing wrong?

[AntouanK]

Oh, found it.
I had to lose the quotes.
So the correct line is

font-2 = Wincon Siji:pixelsize=12;1

a nice one-liner to find it :
fc-list : family | grep -i siji | tail -1

[yazzer25]

Why was this closed? the original issue was never reported as fixed.
I am having the same results when running view.sh

Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Error: Aborting: no font found

the font is installed properly, but I can't run that script and I can't find a list of glyphs anywhere.

[kingkobra87]

I'm having the issue as well. polybar is able to use the font just fine, and fc-match can also find it, but view.sh returns the same error

For now, I'm using gucharmap and the glyphs are located under the unicode block called "Private Use Area"

[juo20]

I have encountered this issue as well and have been working on it for days. Using gucharmap didn't work for me either for some reason. Has really nobody found a final solution for this problem?

[lsl]

Installing xorg-fonts-misc with a reboot after fixed this error in another application for me, I suspect it's likely the same issue.

[Ramkumar47]

for me too.. polybar works fine with siji.. but i am unable to run view.sh script.. i didnt try gucharmap yet.. is there any solution for getting the glyphs list?