The negative of a symbolic font character (Solved)

[666philb]

I have a script that shows the moon phase on conky.
It runs at startup and prints the result as a font from 'font Symbola' (included in fossa) to a config file, this is then read by conky.

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curl wttr.in/London?format=%m > /root/.config/moonphasec

it all works well but i find the font the wrong way around.
the result is this

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but the dark area is actually the moon phase and the white area is dark area.
is there someway to invert this ? i know it's easy from an image but this is a font.

this is the actual font

[JakeSFR]

Hmm, that's how this glyph (f0 9f 8c 92) actually looks like and I agree that somebody should be fired.
The other one is an emoji, rendered by the browser; they've "fixed" it, apparently.
I use Unifont instead of Symbola, btw.

Anyway, it's possible to "invert" them 8 codepoints: 0x1f311 (127761) - 0x1f318 (127768), because the first 4 are basically inversions of the last 4, so we just need to add 4 to any of them and wrap around, when necessary.
For example (with a help of https://stackoverflow.com/a/14416133):

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incr=4; xmin=127761; xmax=127769; printf "%b" \\U$(printf '%x\n' $(echo $(( ((($(printf "%d\n" "'$(curl wttr.in/London?format=%m 2>/dev/null)") + incr - xmin) % (xmax - xmin)) + (xmax - xmin)) % (xmax - xmin) + xmin ))))

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EDIT: here's a nice Bash script I found to calculate and show the current moonphase:

Greetings!

[666philb]

thanks @JakeSFR for this magical voodoo scripting

that bash script is also very clever so no need to use wttr.in now

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[rockedge]

Fun little script! Suddenly thinking a little GUI to output a little image of the phase........

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[666philb]

for anyone interested this is my script in /root/Startup that writes the config file for conky to read. (@JakeSFRs new version that doesn't use wittr.in not implemented yet)

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#!/bin/sh
sleep 60
incr=4; xmin=127761; xmax=127769; printf "%b" \\U$(printf '%x\n' $(echo $(( ((($(printf "%d\n" "'$(curl wttr.in/London?format=%m 2>/dev/null)") + incr - xmin) % (xmax - xmin)) + (xmax - xmin)) % (xmax - xmin) + xmin )))) > /root/.config/moonphasec

edit: the none wittr.in version (put in /root/Startup)

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#!/bin/bash

moon=`moonphase(){
  local lp=2551443
  local now=$(date -u +"%s")
  local newmoon=592500
  local phase=$((($now - $newmoon) % $lp))
  local phase_number=$((((phase / 86400) + 1)*100000))

  # Multiply by 100000 so we can do integer comparison.  Go Bash!

  if   [ $phase_number -lt 184566 ];  then phase_icon="○"  # new
  elif [ $phase_number -lt 553699 ];  then phase_icon="❩"  # waxing crescent
  elif [ $phase_number -lt 922831 ];  then phase_icon="◗"  # first quarter
  elif [ $phase_number -lt 1291963 ];  then phase_icon="◑"  # first quarter
  elif [ $phase_number -lt 1661096 ]; then phase_icon="●"  # full
  elif [ $phase_number -lt 2030228 ]; then phase_icon="◐"  # waning gibbous
  elif [ $phase_number -lt 2399361 ]; then phase_icon="◖"  # last quarter
  elif [ $phase_number -lt 2768493 ]; then phase_icon="❨"  # waning crescent
  else
    phase_icon="○"  # new
  fi
  echo $phase_icon

}

moonphase`

echo $moon > /root/.config/moonphasec

and to add it to conky

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${font Symbola:size=40}${exec cat /root/.config/moonphasec}${font Dejavu Sans Mono:size=12}