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Windows 10, ZSH, Putty, Powerline Fonts and Screen

  • byJordan
  • August 20, 2019
  • 1 minute read

I recently was setting up my Windows 10 desktop machine with Putty so I could access some servers. I use the ZSH shell with OMZ and the Powerline9k theme. I use the following article to set up Putty and grab the appropriate fonts for Windows 10 that were patched.

http://mschulte.nl/posts/using-powerline-in-PuTTY.html

There were some additional options on the following blog article that were required.

Oh My ZSH! with PuTTY

Everything was working great until I was having issues with powerline font’s not showing correctly when using screen.

Running the powerline echo test below resulted in hashed blocks.

echo “\ue0b0 \u00b1 \ue0a0 \u27a6 \u2718 \u26a1 \u2699”

echo "\ue0b0 \u00b1 \ue0a0 \u27a6 \u2718 \u26a1 \u2699"

Turns out I didn’t have my locale set in my shell environment.

export LANG=”C.UTF-8″

export LANG="C.UTF-8"

Once I had the appropriate locale set, everything worked fine.