Trouble powerline fonts sometimes working, but mostly not.

I'm having trouble with Inconsolata-dz for Powerline rendering the powerline arrows properly with dzen and urxvt. Terminator and Chromium render the powerline arrows just fine by default though, and Firefox works after selecting the Inconsolata-dz for Powerline font. Terminator displays them with tmux and vim-airline, Firefox and Chromium display them just fine in this window as I'm typing this. dzen2 and urxvt render blocks.
I've checked the font glyphs with gucharmap and the powerline characters are there where they should be (U+E0A0: , U+E0A1: , U+E0A2: , U+E0B0: , U+E0B1: , U+E0B2: , U+E0B3: ).
Relevant line in .Xdefaults:
URxvt*font: xft:Inconsolata-dz for Powerline:pixelsize=13:antialias=true:hinting=true!
URxvt*boldFont: xft:Inconsolata-dz for Powerline:pixelsize=13:antialias=true:hinting=true:bold
URxvt*italicFont: xft:Inconsolata-dz for Powerline:pixelsize=13:antialias=true:hinting=true:italic
URxvt*bolditalicFont: xft:Inconsolata-dz for Powerline:pixelsize=13:antialias=true:hinting=true:bold:italic
Relevant lines in .Xresources:
URxvt.font:xft:Inconsolata-dz for Powerline:pixelsize=11:antialias=true
dzen2.font:xft:Inconsolata-dz for Powerline:pixelsize=11:antialias=true:hinting=true
Adjusting the font sizes for these works with Urxvt and dzen, but they don't want to render the unicode glyphs!
I downloaded this font from this link and added it to ~/.fonts, then ran
fc-cache -vf ~/.fonts
and then
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
then I restarted X to be sure. Urxvt is compiled with unicode3 and xft as well (it's from the default Arch repos).
Any ideas? This is really starting to frustrate me.

Keeping the thread updated:
* I've tried different font sizes (9-15), and none of them work.
* I googled "inconsolata for powerline xresources xdefaults site:github.com", and none of the configurations work, I tried both .Xresources and .Xdefaults (not at the same time)
* I tried the aur package ttf-inconsolata-dz-powerline. This doesn't work either.
I can't think of anything left that could go wrong. I run fc-cache -vf ~/.fonts and xrdb -merge [...], and restart X, but these don't work. Chromium and terminator both pick up the fonts though.
edit
Just thinking out loud here:
So I have the correct font, I know this because terminator and chromium load them and display the special symbols. What I'm not sure about is why terminator and chromium load this font while urxvt and dzen don't. I might have specified for terminator through its configuration to use this font specifically (can't remember because I've been working on this the past two days), but I know that I didn't with chromium. So I'm not sure if .Xdefaults/.Xresources is loading the font or not. If X is loading the font, then it's a problem with dzen and urxvt (not likely, it's just unicode, and it's well, rxvt-unicode), if X isn't loading the font then it's likely a problem with X or how the .Xdefaults/.Xresources files were set up.
I'm really not sure. I'm really open to anything here.
edit 2
I created a new user to get rid of any potential configuration problem specific to my ~. I copied Inconsolata-dz+for+Powerline.otf into /home/test/.fonts, .Xresources into /home/test and .tmux.conf into /home/test (my tmux config has powerline symbols in the status line). I also created a .xinitrc with:
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
exec fluxbox
Then I ran "fc-cache -vf ~/.fonts", and "startx". The .Xresources had only this line, followed by the solarized .Xresources lines:
URxvt*font: xft:Inconsolata-dz for Powerline:pixelsize=10
I also tried this:
URxvt*font: xft:Inconsolata-dz:pixelsize:10, xft:Inconsolata-dz for Powerline
Still nothing. Is there anything I could be missing here? I know urxvt is using inconsolata-dz because the quotes are vertical and the font sizes change, it just can't display the special characters. But terminator, firefox and chromium can. I'm confused and I'm thinking about filing a bug report. (bolded because this is turning into a long post and it's important to see that urxvt is using the font, but can't render the special glyphs. also, it's late, I'm tired, and it seems like a good use of the bold tags)
Last edited by f8b3c6482265746f (2013-08-19 10:40:28)

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