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Kalinakov
Kalinakov

Reputation: 11

Special Characters on zsh prompt using oh-my-zsh

I've just started using zsh as my shell, coming from bash. I am on a RedHat Linux Workstation build 6.4. I have all the relevent locales installed but when I move to a zsh prompt and pick any of the themes I have a PS1 that looks like this

ââ[name@host] - [~/tars] - [2013-11-05 09:50:26]
ââ[0]

I'm not sure what is causing these special characters. Another example:

name@host ~/tars » echo $PS1                                                                                                                                                                                                    1 âµ
%{$fg[$NCOLOR]%}%n%{$fg[green]%}@%m%{$reset_color%} %~ \
$(git_prompt_info)\
%{$fg[red]%}%(!.#.»)%{$reset_color%}

Is there something I'm missing that I should have installed?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4495

Answers (1)

akluth
akluth

Reputation: 8583

Depending on the prompt theme you use you need a font which supports those characters or need to install additional fonts for your terminal, like the Powerline fonts.

Upvotes: 1

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