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Introduction

I'm using updated TeXlive 2014 and the fontawesome package version is 3.1.1.

The newest version of FontAwesome font is 4.2.0 and it contains icons for Linux and StackExchange.

So I downloaded the bundle from here and just replace the FontAwesome.otf in

/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/fontawesome

After that I run texhash.

The code

I have a (huge) tex file with a lot of material and also the code

\def\faSkype{{\FA\symbol{"F17E}}}
\def\faSE{{\FA\symbol{"F18D}}}
\def\faLinux{{\FA\symbol{"F17C}}}

It compiles with no error and the PDF output is OK, as we can see below.

enter image description here

The problem

I have no idea why the MWE below does not work. The same problem without fontspec. 

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{fontawesome}
\usepackage{fontspec}

\def\faLinux{{\FA\symbol{"F17C}}}
\def\faSE{{\FA\symbol{"F18D}}}
\def\faSkype{{\FA\symbol{"F17E}}}

\begin{document}
Linux icon: \faLinux

StackExchange icon: \faSE


Skyp icon: \faSkype
\end{document}

lualatex on the code above produces (icons missing)

enter image description here

I found here in TeX.SE a lot of topics but that solutions didn't work for me. I'd deleted the system font installed version.

Sigur
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  • You should not have installed the font to /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/fontawesome. It should be in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/opentype/public/fontawesome. – cfr Jan 14 '15 at 02:04
  • Have you deleted ~/.texlive2014? – cfr Jan 14 '15 at 02:07
  • @cfr, no, I didn't delete. I'll move the font file. After that what should I run? texhash? updmap-sys? – Sigur Jan 14 '15 at 02:09
  • @cfr, I moved the font file and deleted the folder on my home. After only this I run only lualatex again and no success. – Sigur Jan 14 '15 at 02:14
  • Try installing the .ttf version as a system font. That's what I've got (and it is 4.2.0) and your MWE compiles fine with both lualatex and xelatex. – cfr Jan 14 '15 at 02:36
  • @cfr, where is the font file on your system? Do you mean otf or ttf? – Sigur Jan 14 '15 at 12:19
  • /usr/share/fonts/TTF/fontawesome-webfont.ttf seems to do the trick. In my case, it is installed as part of ttf-font-awesome with my distro's package manager. – cfr Jan 14 '15 at 13:16
  • On my windows system, it works fine with the open-type version of the font. – Bernard Jan 14 '15 at 13:22
  • I'd installed using synaptic a package with fontawesome but no success. I don't know what to do. – Sigur Jan 14 '15 at 22:02
  • I found Missing character: There is no  (U+F17C) in font "FontAwesome"! in the log file. – Sigur Jan 14 '15 at 22:24
  • Have you tried to run kpsewhere FontAwesome.otf? This will tell you which font the TeX engine is going to load, and you might discover that some folder with another version of the font takes precedence over the one you installed. – Xavier Jul 11 '15 at 19:30

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Maybe a temporary fix would be to work locally with the latest FontAwesome version. Grab the latest version of the font at http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/ and copy the file named "fontawesome-webfont.ttf" in a sub-folder named "fonts" (or any other name) of your LaTex document location. Then, instead of passing through the fontawesome package, you can load and use the font manually like this (based on the MWE you provided):

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{fontspec}

\newfontfamily{\FA}[Path = fonts/]{fontawesome-webfont}

\def\faLinux{{\FA\symbol{"F17C}}}
\def\faSE{{\FA\symbol{"F18D}}}
\def\faSkype{{\FA\symbol{"F17E}}}
\def\github{{\FA\symbol{"F092}}}

\begin{document}

\noindent
Linux icon: \faLinux \\
StackExchange icon: \faSE \\
GitHub icon: \github \\
Skype icon: \faSkype

\end{document}

Here is the output I get for this MWE:

enter image description here

It doesn't solve your problem globally for your system though... LuaLatex is probably grabbing an older version of the font package along the way that override the new one you've installed.

Jean-Sébastien
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