Setting LANG, LC_ALL results in questions marks

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A Powerline-style, Git-aware fish theme optimized for awesome.

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Setting LANG, LC_ALL results in questions marks #261

Closed EdGue42 closed 4 years ago

EdGue42 commented 4 years ago

I added

set -x LANG "C" set -x LC_ALL "C"

to my fish.config in order to fix some issues when using the shell with some remote systems that need these settings for python (?) to work properly.

After adding these two sets, bob shows me that infamous "question mark" prompt:

Notes:

The actual culprit is LC_ALL, setting LANG alone doesn't lead to this problem
I am using a powerline font, see my shell without the above settings for LC_ALL

bobthecow commented 4 years ago

Yep, this is expected. The POSIX ("C") locale doesn't support anything outside of ASCII characters, and powerline characters are definitely that. Ideally the fix for this is to stop using the POSIX locale. No modern system should need that :(

Otherwise, you can disable powerline support in bobthefish, and it'll fall back to only ASCII characters. Add this to your fish config:

set -g theme_powerline_fonts no

EdGue42 commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the quick response and helpful explanation!