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andresgongora / synth-shell

Boost your terminal, script by script
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weird command prompt output #147

Closed toter200 closed 4 years ago

toter200 commented 4 years ago

I just installed synth-shell through the setup.sh script. I get this weird behavior image

I'm on Arch with awesomeWM. I have no idea what might cause this and don't know how to look for a solution

andresgongora commented 4 years ago

Did you remember to install power-fonts or fonts-power as described in the instructions? Those weird characters are the "triangle" separators, but usually you need an extra font to show them properly. Please confirm whether the error persists or goes away :)

dzionek commented 4 years ago

Apart from installing powerline fonts sudo pacman -S powerline-fonts, you need to check if your locales are configured appropriately. Run locale and verify if they are set to UTF-8. If not, edit your /etc/locale.conf

More info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/locale

toter200 commented 4 years ago

Apparently i had no locale.conf. Indeed creating it and changing the Encoding to UTF-8 fixed the error. Thank you very much.

andresgongora commented 4 years ago

Thanks @dzionek. I added a note to the README in develop in b61f4bf. It will slowly make its way to master to avoid future issues like this :)