Non-rendering characters in The Emissary

[deoxys314]

The characters indicating which kingdom I'm at in The Emissary are not present in any fixed-width font I can find on my computer. I regularly use Fira Code patched with powerline and nerd font symbols, even this has no result. I can't even determine what character they are with ga or g8, as neovim reports 20 (space); I suspect the floating window is confusing something here.

What are these supposed to be, and/or are there any fonts (or fallback fonts) I should try to get this rendering properly?

I'm using KiTTY on OSX in this screenshot, but this issue persists across iTerm2, Terminal.App, and Windows Terminal (obviously on Windows).

[rktjmp]

It should look like this, at least when using Iosevka.

It's part of "Symbols for Legacy Computing", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing, 1FBB2 & 1FBB3. 🮲🮳

I figured they would have good support but maybe not.

Can you see them if you just copy paste the chars into your terminal and also into a blank nvim file?

Ideally the symbols would be configurable but I haven't quite thought about how to do that, it can get hinky when for example, its 2 separate chars here, so the component needs to be a bit smarter to work out positions, etc.

All the symbols are picked out of the Iosevka specimen because thats what I use, so Iosevka is a good fallback font choice, but its glyph width is thinner than many fonts, so it might not look great in practice.

[deoxys314]

The only font I seem to have with these is Iosevka, which I installed per this comment, so it doesn't seem to be widespread. On both the Windows and OSX machines I have access to, without that installed, these characters don't render in any terminal (in the game or in a text file) nor any browser I can try (which I figured would have pretty deep font fallback support).

I do like what you're going for here, with a little guy running around to the different kingdoms. I'd favor the option to change these in setup, but that's easy for me to say: I'm not the one who has to write it.