Add blank space glyph to avoid showing [0020] box after glyphs when space is intended

[fletcherw]

When an icon is followed by a space, instead of rendering a space in the default i3bar font, the space is instead rendered as [0020], since there is no space icon in this font. A workaround for this is to add a space glyph which can be used when a space is intended. I added this glyph as \uE277, and as far as I can tell it works as intended.

This is a solution (sort of) to issue #3

[stark]

First off, Thank You for the Fix and making a Pull request.

The thing is, I have further added more glyphs to siji which are not pushed yet because some are incomplete. So, If I merge your changes then i'll have to redraw all the new glyphs again.

If you don't mind, Can you Please make this fix against the next push of siji and then create a Pull request ?

Thank You.

[fletcherw]

Sure! Feel free to ping me when you make the push.

[EnKrypt]

Unfortunately, this PR does not make a difference on i3blocks

I cloned @fletcherw's repo and installed, using the \uE277 to create a space after the label so that the [0020] box does not appear.

But in effect all that did was display the siji icon, a space after that and then the [0020] box.

I'm at a loss on how to fix this. If I could get a hang of where i3blocks itself was adding its space, maybe I could do something to fix it, but I don't know where that is.

[fletcherw]

@EnKrypt In order for it to work, make sure that you have no space in between the icon and the rest of the label. It should look something like [siji icon][\uE277 glyph][rest of label]. This will not work if the rest of the label starts with a space, as you still have the same problem. Unfortunately I still don't have a great grasp on how i3bar picks its fonts for rendering, so if that doesn't fix it I can't really help.

[EnKrypt]

@fletcherw The problem is that i3blocks itself adds a space between the label and the rest of the text which I cannot override. And obviously it's that space that messed everything up.

I fixed this by disabling labels altogether, and editing the i3blocks scripts myself and adding the glyph manually before the appropriate echo or printf statements padded by the \uE277

But yes, I definitely wish there was a better way to fix this problem.