Powerlevel9k: command not found: print_icon on iTerm2

[guidoilbaldo]

Hi guys,

been working for a couple of days with powerlevel9k and it's really awesome! the only thing I cannot get away with is the error above, which is caused by:
POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_PATH_SEPARATOR="%F{red} $(print_icon 'LEFT_SUBSEGMENT_SEPARATOR') %F{black}"

in my .zshrc file.
Found around that the problem may be caused by locale not being correctly set, so I changed it to the following:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
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"

and restarted iTerm2. I keep getting the error and don't know where to fix it. Anyone with Mac OS Sierra and iTerm2 in the same situation?
Any help is much appreciated!

[dritter]

Hi @guidoilbaldo !

Glad you like the theme. :)

The error comes from calling print_icon too early (before the theme is loaded, and print_icon is available).

There are two quick fixes:

1. Make sure you call the theme before you call print_icon. This is a bit stupid, because you have to keep a specific order..
2. You replace the print_icon call with the right code point for LEFT_SUBSEGMENT_SEPARATOR (which depends on your font).

So I recommend the latter method. Just look up the right code point in functions/icons.zsh.

Hope that helps.

[guidoilbaldo]

Had no luck changing this line with your suggestion:
POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_PATH_SEPARATOR="%F{white} \uE0B1 %F{white}"
With the above conf, it just prints \uE0B1 string between folder icon and path.

[dritter]

You are right, but you can make it work by open a subshell and print the icon there:

Copy&Paste solution:
POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_PATH_SEPARATOR="%F{white} $(print $'\uE0B1') %F{white}"

[guidoilbaldo]

great! Thanks again dritter for your patience :) I'll close this!

[bhilburn]

Thanks for the great support, @dritter =)