Question about openweathermap unicode icons

[AdriaanK (Adriaan Kop)]

Currently im working on a Lilygo T5 screen and im busy with using the openweathermnap weather codes.
These codes have a matching unicode font. now im not a big programmer and i have trouble displaying them. when ik print one of the fonts on the lilygo screen its displayed multiple times instead of once. im sure im making a mestake somewhere with calling the unicode icon but i dont know where. Bits of the code i use are below.

font section:

• file: ‘fonts/owfont-regular.ttf’
  id: OWM_font_250
  size: 250
  glyphs: [
  “uniED82”,
  ]

lambda section:

it.printf(260, 55, id(OWM_font_250), TextAlign::TOP_LEFT, “%s”, “uniED82”);

i hope some one can give me a push in the richt direction.

Kind regards Adriaan

[zoogara (Daryl)]

Are you sure that Unicode notation is supported? According to the docs glyphs: only supports single characters and ligatures.

I use a similar method to the one detailed in this post:

Display materialdesign icons on ESPHome attached to screen

I want to make a weather station out of a ESP32 with attached e-paper screen. So I will get a weather forecast from HA and depending on what the forecast is, I need to display a different icon. I could download all the possible pictures, include them all in the .yaml definition and in the lambda write a big if statement to select the right image. It seems to me that the MaterialDesign icons web font should be able to do the same but in a smaller, lighter package. So if I include the .ttf webfon…

[AdriaanK (Adriaan Kop)]

thank you for your reply, ik wil have a look at that post, hopefully i understand whats going on.

btw this is whats happening when i use the font (apart from the screendamage)

So the font seems to work as wel as the calling but i probably do it the wrong way.
.

[AdriaanK (Adriaan Kop)]

Found the solution, calling the uniED82 needed to be changed to \uED82.