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Use a different font for non-ASCII text is disabled by default though.

There are many non-default options that can break things. It would take too much space to cover all of them.

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Hmm. Setting a different font for non-ascii text and then selecting a font that works properly allows me to then use any font, regardless of it having the proper glyphs.

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Hmm. Setting a different font for non-ascii text and then selecting a font that works properly allows me to then use any font, regardless of it having the proper glyphs.

Yep. That's what this setting is for, although it's a crude solution because ASCII/non-ASCII isn't the right partitioning but in practice it's close to what you want.

I don't know about macOS but on Linux you can also do this on the level of the OS. That is, you can define a fallback font that will be used for glyphs missing in other fonts. This is of course better than ASCII/non-ASCII. Physically copying glyphs from one font to another (called font patching) is a viable alternative, which is often easier to achieve in practice and which works on all operating systems. This is in fact how MesloLGS NF is made: it's just Menlo (the font Apple used for the Terminal before switching to whatever they use now) with a bunch of glyphs added to it from other fonts. This patching is done by a script, which you can run with another font as a base. E.g., you can make a font with properly sized icons based on Hack, or any other monospace font. See https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k?tab=readme-ov-file#how-was-the-recommended-font-created

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