oh my zsh showing weird character '?' on terminal

Question

I have installed iTerm2 and Oh-my-zsh. However there is a weird question mark that is coming ever since I have changed ZSH-THEME to "agnoster".

Attaching the screenshot for the same.

I thought powerline would help but that doesn't seem to happen. Can can anyone help me with this?

Pulsimeter

Have you installed powerline fonts? – Ewart

yes I have installed powerline fonts – Pulsimeter

And have you pointed your iTerm to use that font? I suppose you were following this tutorial ? gist.github.com/kevin-smets/8568070 – Ewart

yes, I was following this tutorial, but I am unable to point iterm to fonts! – Pulsimeter

What exactly are you unable to do ? You can't find the font in the list ? You can't find the window where to change it ? – Ewart

I tried doing this : iterm2 > preferences > profiles > text Regular font & non ASCII font. But I could not find non ASCII font – Pulsimeter

solved! point 6 of this article coderwall.com/p/yiot4q/… – Pulsimeter

Added this as answer to the question, easier for future searches. – Ewart

Answer 1

This has fixed the issue. Just select Use built-in Powerline glyphs and use Inconsolata for Powerline font.

Isotope

This worked for me, but one extra thing I had to do was to apply these changes to not just the default profile in iterm2, but also my user-specific profile ("jeff") – Marika

This worked to me just selecting "Use built-in Poweline glyphs". Thanks – Robbegrillet

Answer 2

Installing a powerline patched font will solve this. This official documentation provides description about installing poweline fonts.

There are two ways to enable powerline patched font in iTerm2.

1. Set a powerline patched font as default.

2. Set a powerline patched font for only Non-ASCII characters and use another font for code.

Bonus:

• Collection of powerline patched fonts
• Awesome oh-my-zsh themes
  • Spaceship ZSH
  • Buller Train
  • powerlevel9k

Rosaceous

Answer 3

Just do the following, it worked for me, trust me, see the truth in my eyes.

Go to preference->Profiles->Test and look at the following figure:-

Antonina

Answer 4

On Windows - just * download some Powerline font like: https://github.com/abertsch/Menlo-for-Powerline/raw/master/Menlo%20for%20Powerline.ttf
* Install it by clicking the file twice
* Choose the new font in properties
That's it!

On Mac - the previous answer in totally correct, just install and choose an appropriate font.

Shockey

Answer 5

I fixed this by Going to iTerm2->Settings->Profiles->Text and enabling "Use built-in Powerline glyphs". That fixed the seperators but not the icons.

The icons were fixed by changing to a font that support them. Such as those listed here: https://github.com/powerline/fonts

I already had one installed called "FuraCode Nerd Font" but think this might have been renamed to "Fira Code" or something not quite sure. But you need to have a font that supports the icons.

Cancel

Answer 6

This answer relates to a similar problem I encountered but for the oh-my-posh application on Windows 10 Pro.

For others who might be wrestling with this, I also was having issues where the font would create tiny boxes with question marks. Turns out it was because my version of Windows 10 Pro was not activated. I found this out by trying to search for Fonts in the settings, and was unable to search for any of the Nerd Fonts I thought I had downloaded. Activating Windows 10 Pro fixed the problem as soon as I reloaded.

Petulance