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Edit: I now understand that for some reason my font does not have support for the glyphs in question, still don't know how to solve it.

I am using the "Lazy" package manager to configure neovim on my ubuntu machine, I have lualine and nvim-tree installed by Lazy, I have installed and am using a patched nerd font (hack regular) in the terminal.

For some reason both the symbols in the lualine status bar:

see the bottom right

And in the nvim-tree panel all do not display properly:

see here in top left

I expected the nvim-tree symbols to be folders and files etc and the lualine symbols to be the language I am using etc. I tried figuring out if this is a font problem or a configuration problem but so far had no luck.

lcheylus
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Eli Kalter
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  • I don't see any Chinese, only "this font doesn't support the characters it needs to display" [tofu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specials_(Unicode_block)) boxes. Why did you call that "Chinese"? – Mike 'Pomax' Kamermans Apr 26 '23 at 15:54
  • because in the square boxes there some weird characters, looks like letters in some language, it's not really chinese. – Eli Kalter Apr 26 '23 at 17:54
  • The boxes in your first screenshot contain normal numbers and letters that are on your keyboard right now and that you can read just fine. They're spelling out unicode codepoint number that your font doesn't have support for. I have no idea why there's a `~` in a box in your second screenshot (other than your font clearly not supporting that character either) but that, too, is a normal letter that's on your keyboard right now, not Chinese. I would strongly advise you to not call things you don't recognize "Chinese", just say you don't recognize it. – Mike 'Pomax' Kamermans Apr 26 '23 at 17:57

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Download one of the nerd fonts here: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#patched-fonts

Then change your terminal font to use it.

EDIT: install this as well https://github.com/nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons

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    hey, thank you for the answer, as i said in the question i already have a patched nerd form installed and used (hack) – Eli Kalter Apr 28 '23 at 23:38
  • Thanks @dragonlobster for the update, before I was using kyazdani42/nvim-web-devicons,unfortunately changing it to nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons does not make a difference. – Eli Kalter May 02 '23 at 12:44