specials chars aren't supported OS X el capitan ?

[alexmtch]

Here's a capture of my terminal. I've downloaded the patched fonts and install them by running the bash script. But when i restart my terminal, the specials chars aren't show.

[edelgado]

Same here. Installed the patched fonts and everything. Still see the ? chars. I'm using iTerm2 2.1.4:

If I use the regular Terminal app, then characters show, but kinda overlapped:

So, no luck either way 😕

[mischnic]

Have you set the Non-Ascii-Font (or both) to be your patched Font?

[edelgado]

@mischnic that was exactly it! Thanks so much. I wasn't paying attention to the "Non-ASCII Font" section, but apparently, that's exactly the font that is used by the prompt special characters. Thanks much!

[edelgado]

I must say that the height of the fonts don't match perfectly even when using the same font, font type, font weight and font style. Oh well, maybe everyone's is a little bit off as well.

[alexmtch]

Yep i downloaded a kind of font wich permit me to use :)

[dsowinski]

Hello,

I've had the same issues as described above and the solution for me was to:

1. Install patched fonts from: https://github.com/powerline/fonts
2. Set the same patched font for both ASCII and non-ASCII chars in iTerm2 profile Text preferences and then match up the sizes (currently 12 for ASCII and 13 for non-ASCII) as keeping them the same makes an ugly prompt ;-)
3. If you see mismatching colours in prompt, this is caused by transparency of the terminal, so you need to tick "Keep background colours opaque" in Window settings.

Additionally, for some reason adding to .profile did not work for me, so I had to put it in ~/.bash_profile

Hope this helps someone!

[ndey96]

Using terminal in macOS Sierra I needed to switch my font to Inconsolata for Powerline and it was all good :)