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Troubleshooting on Linux
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I can’t see any fancy symbols, what’s wrong?
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* Make sure that you’ve configured gvim or your terminal emulator to use
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a patched font.
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* You need to set your ``LANG`` and ``LC_*`` environment variables to
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a UTF-8 locale (e.g. ``LANG=en_US.utf8``). Consult your Linux distro’s
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documentation for information about setting these variables correctly.
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* Make sure that vim is compiled with the ``--with-features=big`` flag.
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* If you’re using rxvt-unicode make sure that it’s compiled with the
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``--enable-unicode3`` flag.
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* If you’re using xterm make sure you have told it to work with unicode. You may
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need ``-u8`` command-line argument, ``uxterm`` shell wrapper that is usually
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shipped with xterm for this or ``xterm*utf8`` property set to ``1`` or ``2``
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in ``~/.Xresources`` (applied with ``xrdb``). Note that in case ``uxterm`` is
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used configuration is done via ``uxterm*…`` properties and not ``xterm*…``.
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In any case the only absolute requirement is launching xterm with UTF-8
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locale.
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* If you are using bitmap font make sure that
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:file:`/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf` does not exist. If it does check
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out your distribution documentation to find a proper way to remove it (so that
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it won’t reappear after update). E.g. in Gentoo this is::
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eselect fontconfig disable 70-no-bitmaps.conf
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(currently this only removes the symlink from :file:`/etc/fonts/conf.d`). Also
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check out that no other fontconfig file does not have ``rejectfont`` tag that
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tells fontconfig to disable bitmap fonts (they are referenced as not
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scalable).
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The fancy symbols look a bit blurry or “off”!
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* Make sure that you have patched all variants of your font (i.e. both the
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regular and the bold font files).
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