Powerline for zsh

I was having a lot of trouble getting powerline to work on my mac machine. No matter what I tried, I was getting errors like the following:

    .oh-my-zsh/themes/powerline.zsh-theme:100: character not in range

Finally got it to work after multiple attempts on bash and zsh.

All I had to do was set LC_ALL to en_US.UTF-8. It would set all the locales to en_US.UTF-8 which would allow powerline fonts work properly.

$ export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"                                                                                                     22:58:06 
$ locale 
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

After this, run the following command to test your fonts again.

LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 echo '\u2603'

Your command should work with or without LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8. Here’s what you expect to see now.

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