Indeed, there is a WG2/UTC proposal to officially add Powerline symbols to Unicode [1]. The problem of this approach is that those standards are very strongly (

Indeed, there is a WG2/UTC proposal to officially add Powerline symbols to Unicode [1]. The problem of this approach is that those standards are very strongly (and probably rightly) governed with a lot of crufts and limitations, for example you can't put Github symbol there because it is trademarked. [1] https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19068-powerline-syms.pdf https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19068-powerline-syms.pdf