User nerd font symbols for progress as they are guaranteed to exist #8986

Job	Run time
Bundle test (ubuntu-latest)	2m 13s
Linux (python=3.9 cc=gcc sanitize=0)	1m 43s
Bundle test (macos-latest)	2m 18s
Linux (python=3.10 cc=gcc sanitize=1)	2m 12s
Linux (python=3.11 cc=clang sanitize=1)	2m 34s
macOS Brew	3m 11s
Test ./dev.sh and benchmark	2m 29s
Linux package	10m 56s
	27m 36s

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