Primefaces datatable replacing pagination button icons - primefaces

Question

I need some help with Primefaces datatable pagination buttons. I'm replacing icons on pagination buttons with FontAwesome icons. Here is a CSS example what I did for one of them (I modified others the same way):
div.ui-paginator > a.ui-paginator-prev > .ui-icon.ui-icon-seek-prev {
text-indent: 0;
}
div.ui-paginator > a.ui-paginator-prev > .ui-icon.ui-icon-seek-prev::before {
font-family: FontAwesome;
content: "\f048";
}
I refreshed my page and I've noticed that icons get replaced but now a new character appears on the right side of each Font Awesome icon (F, P, N, and E).
I believe it has to do something with locales where N stands for Next, P is Previous, E is End and F is First. I've had the same problem with the calendar component and I modified my locales.js to solve that issue. I would also like to remove these pagination characters if possible.
How can I do that?
Is it possible to modify the (1 of 150) to my locale language as well?
EDIT 1
Html after replacement looks like this:
Old icons have been removed as described above with the same css procedure only different selectors. I am not using any custom paginators for this, only default Primefaces datatable pagination.
My DataTable xhtml tag is:
<p:dataTable id="DTableA" var="dataObject" value="#{dataTableBean.objectList}" paginator="true" rows="10" rowKey="#{dataObject.id}"
paginatorTemplate="{RowsPerPageDropdown} {FirstPageLink} {PreviousPageLink} {CurrentPageReport} {NextPageLink} {LastPageLink}"
rowsPerPageTemplate="5,10,15,25,50" reflow="true">
EDIT 2
Following #Jasper de Vries answer didn't resolve my issue because the posted answer is somewhat deprecated. Main selector is incorrect for Primefaces 6.2.
See the following selector:
.ui-paginator > span:before, .ui-sortable-column-icon:before {
font-family: FontAwesome; color: #fff;
}
.ui-paginator > span:before is incorrect. Should be .ui-paginator > a:before for Primefaces 6.2.
Also I had to replace sorting caret icons from suggested answer with these:
.ui-icon-carat-2-n-s.ui-icon-triangle-1-n:before {
content: "\f0d8";
}
.ui-icon-carat-2-n-s.ui-icon-triangle-1-s:before {
content: "\f0d7";
}
and resize them:
.ui-sortable-column-icon {
height: 20px;
}
And second part of my question
Is it possible to modify the (1 of 150) to my locale language as
well?
hasn't been answered yet.

Answer 1

SOLUTION
I've finally figured out what happened when I wrote css like this:
div.ui-paginator > a.ui-paginator-prev > .ui-icon.ui-icon-seek-prev {
text-indent: 0;
}
div.ui-paginator > a.ui-paginator-prev > .ui-icon.ui-icon-seek-prev::before {
font-family: FontAwesome;
content: "\f048";
}
Each icon for the pagination should be replaced with a FontAwesome icon inside the <a> tag and not inside the <span> tag as I did.
It's interesting that the icon class by Primefaces is placed inside the <span> tag and it confused me to think that an icon is placed inside it. Instead it's actually a wrapper tag for text I tried to hide which was already hidden by default. Setting text indent to 0 and adding an icon to that particular span exposes the hidden text.
<a href="#" class="ui-paginator-next ui-state-default ui-corner-all" aria-label="Next Page" tabindex="0">
<span class="ui-icon ui-icon-seek-next">N</span>
</a>
Modified selectors do the trick here. Sample CSS is available by #Jasper de Vries. My edited CSS for pagination goes like this:
.ui-paginator.ui-paginator-top.ui-widget-header.ui-corner-top,
.ui-paginator.ui-paginator-bottom.ui-widget-header.ui-corner-bottom,
.ui-paginator a,
.ui-paginator a:hover {
background: none;
background-image: none;
-moz-box-shadow: none;
-webkit-box-shadow: none;
box-shadow: none;
text-shadow: none;
}
.ui-paginator > a {
width: 32px;
height: 32px;
}
.ui-paginator a,
.ui-paginator a:hover {
border: none;
-moz-border-radius: 0;
-webkit-border-radius: 0;
border-radius: 0;
padding: 3px 0px 0px 0px;
color: #fff;
}
.ui-paginator a {
background-color: #1E88E5;
}
.ui-paginator a:hover {
background-color: #1565C0;
}
.ui-paginator a,
.ui-sortable-column-icon:before {
font-family: FontAwesome;
}
.ui-sortable-column-icon.ui-icon {
background-image: none;
text-indent: 0;
margin: 0 0 0 .5em;
height: 20px;
}
.ui-paginator span span,
.ui-paginator a span {
display: none;
}
.ui-paginator .ui-paginator-first:before {
content: "\f048";
}
.ui-paginator .ui-paginator-prev:before {
content: "\f04a";
}
.ui-paginator .ui-paginator-next:before {
content: "\f04e";
}
.ui-paginator .ui-paginator-last:before {
content: "\f051";
}
.ui-sortable-column-icon.ui-icon.ui-icon-carat-2-n-s.ui-icon-triangle-1-n,
.ui-sortable-column-icon.ui-icon.ui-icon-carat-2-n-s.ui-icon-triangle-1-s {
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}
.ui-sortable-column-icon.ui-icon.ui-icon-carat-2-n-s.ui-icon-triangle-1-n {
top: -2px;
}
.ui-sortable-column-icon.ui-icon.ui-icon-carat-2-n-s.ui-icon-triangle-1-s {
top: 4px;
}
.ui-sortable-column-icon.ui-icon.ui-icon-carat-2-n-s:before {
content: "\f0dc";
}
.ui-sortable-column-icon.ui-icon.ui-icon-carat-2-n-s.ui-icon-triangle-1-n:before {
content: "\f0d8";
}
.ui-sortable-column-icon.ui-icon.ui-icon-carat-2-n-s.ui-icon-triangle-1-s:before {
content: "\f0d7";
}
Thank you #Jasper de Vries and #Kukeltje for your help.