Conflicts between nerd fonts and systems fonts (private use area)

[afbjorklund]

I had some conflicts with some system fonts, for languages that I don't really use. So I simply removed them:

  "cod-error": {
    "char": "",
    "code": "ea87"
  },

sudo apt remove fonts-arphic-ukai fonts-arphic-uming

But one glyph conflict remains, regarding \uf42e which also appears in DejaVu Sans... Is this to be expected ?

  "oct-check": {
    "char": "",
    "code": "f42e"
  },

https://dejavu.sourceforge.net/samples/DejaVuSans.pdf

[Finii]

Hmm, at least in the DejaVu we use there is no glyph at F42E:

and 2.37 is the latest release, at least at https://github.com/dejavu-fonts/dejavu-fonts

Later

Ah DejaVu Sans and not DejaVu Sans Mono...

Is this to be expected?

Well, everyone can put anything into the PUA.

You can patch a Nerd Font

• Overwriting the existing glyphs
• Keeping the existing glyphs just patching into free glyphs
• Patch without the Octicons set (F400 - F532)

If you on the other hand work with fontfallback you can create a fontconfig that prefers the Octicons or the DejaVuSans glyphs - not sure what you need.

[afbjorklund]

Changing the terminal font was a good enough workaround, I guess that tweaking fontconfig could have worked too...