Just installing a new Arch based system and as Arch keeps everything up to date and Noto Sans Symbols 2 got updated with the 🟙 Nine Pointed Star this means the #bahai star now works by default on any #ArchLinux system that has a proper Noto fallback chain.
@lapingvino can you link a pointer on how to set up such a "fallback chain"? I never got non-latin fonts working properly - not normally too much of an issue, but it'd be nice to fix.
@khird What is your OS?
@lapingvino Arch, with Cinnamon as my DE
@khird probably installing https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/noto-fonts/ should be enough to have all fallback except CJK, and https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/noto-fonts-cjk/ and https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/noto-fonts-emoji/ to have CJK and emoji support.
@lapingvino my problem isn't that I can't install the fonts, but that falling back doesn't seem to work. For example I have some perso-arabic fonts installed, but I still get tofu when I come across it on a webpage, because my latin font doesn't have those characters.
@khird which browser are you using? browsers kinda have their own fallback systems too...
@lapingvino I use Firefox.
@khird You need to configure that in Firefox settings, Firefox has its own fallback system: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-fonts-and-colors-websites-use
@khird still when that fails the system fonts normally should take over. I suspect the issue is that it tries to use a font that's not there and that holds it up in the fallback chain, not falling back to the rest of the system fonts...