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Annoying Broken Character

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Description

Hi,

I am getting this character '☰' to not render properly for some reason, when running MacVim (in GUI mode). It renders as '[?]' Is there a way to fix that? It is not like that in iTerm2 or Alacritty (non-gui mode). Here are some more images:

Working nicely:
screen shot 2018-10-18 at 15 45 16
screen shot 2018-10-18 at 15 41 42

Broken :(
screen shot 2018-10-18 at 15 41 22
screen shot 2018-10-18 at 15 41 11
screen shot 2018-10-18 at 15 40 53

Font is the same in both cases:
DroidSansMonoForPowerline:h11

OSX, ElCapitan, MacVim binary release (151)

Thanks.

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the broken ☰ character in MacVim GUI on OS X El Capitan using the MacVim binary release (151) and DroidSansMonoForPowerline:h11. Compare the result with iTerm2 and Alacritty, where it renders correctly. Done means the character renders correctly in the MacVim GUI as well.

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Assessment

Tech stack
macos, vim
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
28/100

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