title: Font Awesome icons do not show in UWP app
body: <p>I have recently tried adding an icon from Font Awesome 5 to a UWP project I'm working on.  After failing to get the icon I want to show in the app, I tried simplifying things by getting the icon to show in a simple test app, still with no success.  All I did to create the test app was:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>In Visual Studio, create a new Windows Universal Blank App.</li>
  <li><p>Added the Font Awesome OTF font file.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Assets
      Fonts
          Font Awesome 5 Free-Solid-900.otf
  </code></pre></li>
  <li><p>Modified <code>MainPage.xaml</code> (following instructions provided by <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/text/fonts" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Microsoft</a>) like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;Grid&gt;
      &lt;FontIcon FontFamily="Assets/Fonts/Font Awesome 5 Free-Solid-900.otf#Font Awesome 5 Free Solid" FontWeight="Black" Glyph="&amp;#xF193;" /&gt;
  &lt;/Grid&gt;
  </code></pre></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>When I run the test app, all I see where the icon should be is a square box.  According to the <a href="https://fontawesome.com/icons/wheelchair?style=solid" rel="nofollow noreferrer">icon's page</a>, the solid version I'm trying to use is in the free version of the font and I have correctly set the font weight to match the configuration of the font family.</p>
  
  <p>Other things I've tried:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Different paths for the Font Family:
  
  <ul>
  <li><code>Font Awesome 5 Free Solid</code></li>
  <li><code>/Assets/Fonts/Font Awesome 5 Free-Solid-900.otf#Font Awesome 5 Free Solid</code></li>
  <li><code>ms-appx:///Assets/Fonts/Font Awesome 5 Free-Solid-900.otf#Font Awesome 5 Free Solid</code></li>
  </ul></li>
  <li>Different minimum version on the UWP project configuration.</li>
  <li>Different version of Visual Studio.  I am using Visual Studio 2017 for my (real) app because it has certain legacy requirements.  Couldn't get this font thing to work in Visual Studio 2019 either.</li>
  <li>Different font character.  I tried the alternate accessibility symbol provided by Font Awesome which, according to its <a href="https://fontawesome.com/icons/accessible-icon?style=brands" rel="nofollow noreferrer">information page</a>, is in the <code>Font Awesome 5 Brands-Regular-400.otf</code> font file.  And yes, for this case I did reset the font weight to <code>Normal</code> (400).</li>
  <li>A different control.  Tried using a <code>TextBlock</code> instead of <code>FontIcon</code> with same settings (Font Family, Font Weight, Text instead of Glyph, etc.)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><em>Nothing</em> has worked; I have never seen any of the Font Awesome icons I've tried to use appear in my app, every time showing the square box.  Is there anything else I haven't tried?</p>