Include Powerline Symbols

[alexanderfahlke]

How about adding the "powerline" symbols to this very nice font?

I know how to patch my fonts manually, but it's a "complex" process for people who just want to start to use this font. I would really like to see these symbols in this font.

Source: https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline

I use it for some shell-eye-candy:

[miguelsousa]

The Unicode values are listed at https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline/blob/develop/fontpatcher/README.rst#glyph-table

[pauldhunt]

These don’t seem to be in Unicode 6.1, are these encoding slots being poached?

[miguelsousa]

Yep. Those codepoints are not defined in 6.2 either http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2B00.pdf

[pauldhunt]

Since these are poaching valid Unicode values (opposed to using PUA) I’m inclined not to add them to the main branch of the font.

[miguelsousa]

Agree. Let's keep the issue open and see if anyone is interested in taking on the task.

[pauldhunt]

btw, I posted this as an issue to Powerline: https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline/issues/223

[Artanis]

It looks like the glyphs in question here will be moved into the private use area in an upcoming update to powerline, if I'm understanding the recent comments in Lokaltog/vim-powerline#128 correctly.

[Lokaltog]

All the symbols have now been moved to the PUA in the upcoming version of Powerline: powerline/powerline@53fbfe1. Details available here.

[pauldhunt]

Powerline symbols will be in the next release of the fonts, which will likely be sometime in July.