Broken Icons on Windows

[0xvividmirage]

I used scoop (https://scoop.sh/) to intall Emacs on Windows and then I installed Centaur-Emacs's "emacs.d". I notice that I cannot get the icons to display under Windows. I tried manually installing the fonts as was stated. Do you have any idea why my icons are broken? I am installing this on a non-admin account at work. Could that be an issue?

Here is what I am seeing:

UPDATE
Although icons are still not showing correctly, some icons show now that I added these lines:

(set-language-environment "UTF-8")
(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)

Any ideas how I can fix this?

[seagle0128]

Did you run M-x all-the-icons-install-fonts and install all-the-icons manually. I believe you need admin privilege to install the fonts.

[0xvividmirage]

Yes, I have run that command and have manually installed the fonts that were downloaded which includes "all-the-icons.ttf". At my job, I am allowed to install fonts without admin priviledges. I think this is normally not allowed in Windows though. I was probably given special access to be able to do this because I install fonts often due to the nature of my work.

Now I think the issue may be that Centaur Emacs requires admin in order to use/execute the fonts that are installed. Do you have any ideas for a workaround?

[seagle0128]

I don't think Centaur Emacs changes the font behaviors of vanilla Emacs. Please check if all-the-icons are displayed in Emacs (From menu, Options-> Set default Font...). And don't add any other personal customizations about fonts.

BTW, which version of Emacs are you using?

[0xvividmirage]

all-the-icons is in the list of Emacs fonts:

I'm using Emacs 26.3 installed via Scoop on Windows 10.

[seagle0128]

I have no idea :(

I am not using scoop and Windows. But it was working well on Windows 7 and 10, with GNU Emacs which I downloaded from the official website.

[0xvividmirage]

I downloaded the portable Windows version of Emacs 26.3 from the official site just now and ran it and I still encounter the same issue, where some icons are still broken.

[seagle0128]

Try M-x all-the-icons-insert-octicon, and check mark-github and tools icons.

NOTE: please remove all of your private configurations.

[0xvividmirage]

I see this is intended to insert an icon manually. They still don't show up. They still appear broken.

local configurations are removed.

[seagle0128]

Did you install octicon font correctly?

[shanyouli]

Maybe you should install the symbola font, because it may be that your current default font does not contain the required glyph, and Emacs does not find the glyph you really need when searching for this character in other fonts.
For more details, please read Emacs-fonts-and-fontsets
PS：I used to use the glyph problem before, and I clearly installed the font correctly, but I can't display the glyph correctly. Then I installed the symbola font to solve it.

[seagle0128]

Thanks for the information, @shanyouli !

[0xvividmirage]

@shanyouli thank you! Symbola fixed it for me!

However, if "Symbola" is required for icons to not be broken on Windows 10, I think it would be a good idea to change the font requirements for Windows users to match a free software license. Here is the license for Symbola. Also, there was the issue where I had to enable UTF-8 support.

[rkalyankumar]

Head to https://github.com/domtronn/all-the-icons.el/tree/master/fonts and download all the ttf font files and right click each of the files downloaded and choose install for all users & restart your emacs.

[seagle0128]

Now using M-x centaur-install-fonts will install the necessary fonts automatically.