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?

And have you pointed your iTerm to use that font? I suppose you were following this tutorial ? https://gist.github.com/kevin-smets/8568070 — PinkFluffyUnicorn, Feb 17 '17 at 09:26
yes, I was following this tutorial, but I am unable to point iterm to fonts! — Aditi Kaushal, Feb 17 '17 at 09:31
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 ? — PinkFluffyUnicorn, Feb 17 '17 at 09:32
I tried doing this : iterm2 > preferences > profiles > text Regular font & non ASCII font. But I could not find non ASCII font — Aditi Kaushal, Feb 17 '17 at 09:35
solved! point 6 of this article https://coderwall.com/p/yiot4q/setup-vim-powerline-and-iterm2-on-mac-os-x — Aditi Kaushal, Feb 17 '17 at 09:46
Added this as answer to the question, easier for future searches. — PinkFluffyUnicorn, Feb 17 '17 at 10:24

salmanulfarzy · Answer 1 · 2017-07-27T12:55:34.010

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.

Set a powerline patched font as default.

One defauls font

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

Different fonts

Bonus:

Collection of powerline patched fonts
Awesome oh-my-zsh themes

score 58 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 10 '20 at 16:23

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

edited Jul 10 '20 at 16:23

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answered Nov 29 '19 at 10:45

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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") – Jeff Wright Jun 16 '21 at 13:46

score 14 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 06 '21 at 14:58

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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:-

answered Jul 06 '21 at 14:58

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score 7 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 16 '17 at 13:28

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.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered May 04 '22 at 22:56

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.

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