How to display unicode characters in ncmpcpp

Question

I am using Arch Linux and have UTF-8 encoding enabled. But how can I display a unicode character in ncmpcpp via the config file of ncmpcpp?

I already added the line filesystem_charset "UTF-8" to /etc/mpd.conf, which I think is unnecessary.

In the ~/.ncmpcpp/config file, I tried progressbar_look = "\u25BA" but it spits out all the characters as they are. Also tried setting

system_encoding = "utf8"

in ~/.ncmpcpp/config but doesn't seem to work. BTW, I can print unicode on the terminal. I'm using xfce4-terminal if that helps.

Answer 1

You can just enter ► directly in the config file, without any escaping. Note that the progressbar_look setting must contain exactly two or three characters.