Does not render some UTF8 characters

[gullevek]

Which operating system does the issue occur on?

macOS 10.12.6

sample line from Terminal.app visible:
set listchars=tab:\→\ ,trail:▫︎,nbsp:•,eol:¶,extends:»,precedes:«

in Alcritty
listchars=tab:\�F~R\ ,trail:�V�N,nbsp:�@,eol:¶,extends:»,precedes:«

[chrisduerr]

Does #1099 fix this?

[gullevek]

I will try.

But how do I clean up the whole build try to build again? make clean seems to only remove the build app.

[jwilm]

@gullevek you can cargo clean but that shouldn't be necessary.

[sodiumjoe]

it's merged, so you can just pull master

[sodiumjoe]

@gullevek were you able to rebuild from latest master?

[gullevek]

I pulled in the updates and rebuild (in just make app and also with cargo clean) but I still cannot input japanese nor view japanese characters.

Pressing the "kana" key on the keyboard inserts a space. manually changing input in the drop down from the top menu inputs the normal ascii characters.

listing folders/files with japanese just shows question marks.

The above mention problem with other UTF-8 characters like in my original report is still there

[sodiumjoe]

the utf-8 characters issue might have to do with fallback fonts not containing the necessary characters.

When I paste your input I get:

➤ echo 'tab:\→\ ,trail:▫<fe0e>,nbsp:•,eol:¶,extends:»,precedes:«'
tab:\→\ ,trail:▫︎,nbsp:•,eol:¶,extends:»,precedes:«

The japanese character issue looks like it's captured in #1101 (reported by you)

[sodiumjoe]

I think the fallback issue will be solved by #957

[jussi-kalliokoski]

Also having the same issue as OP, but everything seems to work fine in alacritty+tmux, the characters are rendered correctly and also vim doesn't choke on processing the configuration file. Maybe the issue is with some environment variables?

[jussi-kalliokoski]

Looks like setting env.LC_CTYPE in config to not include the locale, i.e. just UTF-8 (same value as iTerm2) fixes the issue. Alacritty seems to use LOCALE.ENCODING by default, which was en_FI.UTF-8 for me.

[sodiumjoe]

@jussi-kalliokoski are you on macos? If so, can you try this branch?

[jussi-kalliokoski]

@sodiumjoe yup, on macOS and yep, works on that branch without overrides.

[chrisduerr]

Seems like the locale issue has been fixed in #1087. Closing as resolved.