Awesome Icons Broken After Ttf-font-awesome Update On Arch #130
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As per the pacman logs below, ttf-font-awesome was updated by pacman on the 29th of December, which resulted in i3status-rust looking like this:

As you can see icons do not display properly anymore. removing i3status-rust-git and re-installing from AUR did not fix the issue.
Relevant snippet of pacman logs:
[2017-12-29 17:12] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu' [2017-12-29 17:12] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists [2017-12-29 17:13] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade [2017-12-29 17:22] [ALPM] transaction started [2017-12-29 17:22] [ALPM] upgraded docker (1:17.11.0-1 -> 1:17.12.0-1) [2017-12-29 17:22] [ALPM] upgraded mesa (17.3.0-2 -> 17.3.1-2) [2017-12-29 17:22] [ALPM] upgraded firefox (57.0.2-1 -> 57.0.3-1) [2017-12-29 17:22] [ALPM] upgraded lib32-mesa (17.3.0-2 -> 17.3.1-2) [2017-12-29 17:22] [ALPM] upgraded numactl (2.0.11-1 -> 2.0.11-2) [2017-12-29 17:22] [ALPM] upgraded ttf-font-awesome (4.7.0-5 -> 5.0.2-1) [2017-12-29 17:22] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-common (1.19.5-1 -> 1.19.6-2) [2017-12-29 17:22] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server (1.19.5-1 -> 1.19.6-2) [2017-12-29 17:22] [ALPM] transaction completed [2017-12-29 17:22] [ALPM] running 'fontconfig.hook'... [2017-12-29 17:22] [ALPM] running 'gtk-update-icon-cache.hook'... [2017-12-29 17:22] [ALPM] running 'systemd-sysusers.hook'... [2017-12-29 17:22] [ALPM] running 'systemd-update.hook'... [2017-12-29 17:22] [ALPM] running 'update-desktop-database.hook'... [2017-12-29 17:22] [ALPM] running 'xorg-mkfontdir.hook'...Metadata
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