byobu

Extended characters not displaying correctly

Asked by SabreWolfy

byobu 5.4 on Ubuntu servers 10.04 and 11.10 accessed via terminator from a CrunchBang Linux (Debian Squeeze) netbook. The Ubuntu "Circle of Friends" character is displaying as a square block with four tiny characters in it. This was not the case when these servers were accessed from a CrunchBang desktop machine. Possibly I am missing a package for these extra/extended characters?

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SabreWolfy (sabrewolfy) said : 		#1

PS: Dustin: A huge thanks once again for all the work you have done on byobu. I use it on two Ubuntu servers accessed from several locations over SSH on a daily basis and I rely on it heavily :)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#2

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) said : 		#3

Howdy,

Right, so that character is a special UTF8 character that is provided by some package in newer versions of Ubuntu.

I'm not exactly sure what provides that, but I've subscribed Paul Sladen who will know. If its just a simple, single font package, I'll just add it to the byobu ppa.

Paul, what package provides the Ubuntu monospace  character?

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Paul Sladen (sladen) said : 		#4

'ubuntu-font-family-sources' builds 'ttf-ubuntu-font-family.deb' which contains '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/UbuntuMono-R.ttf' (font name "Ubuntu Mono" "Regular") that has the superscript Ubuntu Circle of Friends mapped at Unicode codepoint U+F0FF ('').

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) said : 		#5

Okay, I just pushed builds of that package to the ppa:byobu/ppa, and added it to byobu's suggests.

Thanks!

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SabreWolfy (sabrewolfy) said : 		#6

So to confirm, if I am connecting to an Ubuntu server FROM a Debian Squeeze machine, I would need to install the ttf ubuntu font family package from the Ubuntu repos onto the Debian machine?

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Paul Sladen (sladen) said : 		#7

Yes. (A font with the appropriate OS needs to be on the machine, where the client Gnome-terminal/Konsole/Putty). Up until that point, the display is just a sequence of numbers: it is the terminal emulator program that uses the font to draw glyph outlines on the screen.