GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 657957
missing "icon" characters
Last modified: 2014-05-05 10:15:35 UTC
Cantarell is missing at least some of the following characters currently used by gnome-shell: U+2081 SUBSCRIPT ONE ₁ U+2304 DOWN ARROWHEAD ⌄ U+2328 KEYBOARD ⌨ U+232B ERASE TO THE LEFT ⌫ U+23CE RETURN SYMBOL ⏎ U+25B8 BLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ▸ U+25BE BLACK DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ▾ U+25CF BLACK CIRCLE ● U+263A WHITE SMILING FACE ☺ U+2B06 UPWARDS BLACK ARROW ⬆ U+2B07 DOWNWARDS BLACK ARROW ⬇ I don't know exactly which ones, because I don't know how to get it to not fall back to pulling glyphs out of DejaVu and other fonts. It's definitely missing the keyboard glyph, for instance. Matthias noticed this when testing on a machine that didn't have deja-vu-sans-fonts installed.
Commit bbebefe0 contains five new symbols in both the regular and bold weights of Cantarell: U+2328 KEYBOARD ⌨ U+25CF BLACK CIRCLE ● U+232B ERASE TO THE LEFT ⌫ U+25CB WHITE CIRCLE ○ U+25FE BLACK MEDIUM SMALL SQUARE ◾
Created attachment 242230 [details] Cantarell Regular SFD file with left/right/up/down-pointing regular and small triangles This update adds two sets of left/right/up/down pointing triangles—regular size and small (see Unicode chart for reference http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U25A0.pdf)—to Cantarell Regular and Bold. SFD file for Cantarell Regular attached here, and Bold is below. Regular-sized triangles: U+25B2 BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE ▲ U+25B6 BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE ▶ U+25BC BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE ▼ U+25C0 BLACK LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE ◀ Small triangles: U+25B4 BLACK UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ▴ U+25B8 BLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ▸ U+25BE BLACK DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ▾ U+25C2 BLACK LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ◂
Created attachment 242231 [details] Cantarell Bold SFD file with left/right/up/down-pointing regular and small triangles Same glyphs as Cantarell Regular added to the Bold, as well.
Created attachment 242784 [details] [review] Add several miscellaneous glyphs to Cantarell Regular + Bold The following symbols are added by this commit: U+25B2 BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE ▲ U+25B6 BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE ▶ U+25BC BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE ▼ U+25C0 BLACK LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE ◀ U+25B4 BLACK UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ▴ U+25B8 BLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ▸ U+25BE BLACK DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ▾ U+25C2 BLACK LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ◂ U+2B05 LEFTWARDS BLACK ARROW ⬅ U+2B06 UPWARDS BLACK ARROW ⬆ U+2B07 DOWNWARDS BLACK ARROW ⬇ U+27A1 BLACK RIGHTWARDS ARROW ➡ U+23CE RETURN SYMBOL ⏎ U+2303 UP ARROWHEAD ⌃ U+2304 DOWN ARROWHEAD ⌄ Two glyphs from the original bug—U+2081 SUBSCRIPT ONE ₁ and U+263A WHITE SMILING FACE ☺—are not included in this patch because it could not be determined where they are used in the GNOME shell and hence couldn't be tested. Any leads on where/how they are used will be appreciated!
You don't necessarily need to test in shell directly, any gtk3 app will do. But you can paste a character to any entry field (like the search entry in the ovrvie) by typing ctrl+shift+u+<unicode sequence> I have pushed your patch. P.S. Have you seriously already used git bz? You don't seem to be the average type designer ;)
I was only trying to find out where these glyphs are used in the GNOME shell to be sure that one should add them at all, especially the smiley face. As far as the subscript numeral is concerned, it might be worthwhile to be thorough and add all the numerals in one go. Sorry to disappoint, but I have no idea what git bz is (: I merely attached a git-format patch!
This bug has been fixed for a long time already. Please close it.