Nerd fonts fix

I created this repository because I had this problem while using oh-my-posh with nerd fonts (ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#1310).

WARNING: it has only been tested on the VS code powershell terminal. Some icons are still missing if you use the powershell without vscode.

Usage:

• First install the provided fonts
• Then download the provided oh-my-posh themes and replace them C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Programs\oh-my-posh\themes
• Choose the theme you would like to use following the instructions (https://ohmyposh.dev/docs/installation/customize#config-syntax). Here is the line of code for powershell users theme: oh-my-posh init pwsh --config pathToTheme | Invoke-Expression

Explanation:

It seems they updated to v3 and there are missing glyphs but if you download older fonts there are still missing icons.
If you create your own custom font from the font patcher they provide, it simply didn't work for me (https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts).

So the solution was to use "fontForge" and map those missing unicode characters to other ones. The mapped characters work with the fonts provided that is the Consolas Nerd Font


I used the following powershell function to replace all characters, I loaded this into the $profile powershell file.
Usage: ReplaceStr themePath unicode1 unicode2
Example: `ReplaceStr C:\oh-my-posh\themes uea6c uf52

function ReplaceStr {
    param (
        [string]$folderPath,
        [string]$searchString,
        [string]$replaceString
    )
    # Get all files in the folder
    $files = Get-ChildItem -Path $folderPath -File -Recurse

    # Loop through each file and replace the string
    foreach ($file in $files) {
        # Read the file content
        $content = Get-Content -Path $file.FullName -Raw

        # Replace the string
        $newContent = $content -replace $searchString, $replaceString

        # Write the updated content back to the file
        $newContent | Set-Content -Path $file.FullName
    }
}

I personally replaced this unicode characters into the following ones

SEARCH STRING -> REPLACE STRING

• \u2800 -> \u0020

• \ueba2 -> \ue5fc

• \uea08 -> \uf755

• \ueb05 -> \uf250

• \uebcb -> \uf9e0

• \ueb99 -> \uf508

• \ue641 -> \uf017

• \ueb9e -> \uf989

I also used this page (https://www.branah.com/unicode-converter) to copy, paste and decode unicode characters

If you have any feature request open an issue or a pull request