Spaceship-prompt: SPACESHIP_GIT_SYMBOL gives a " " 🤷🏽‍♂️

[adnasa]

Issue

Good morning,
This is probably a duplicate, but I couldn't find a previously reported one when looking around the issues

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thank you for this project. I find it super lovely that I'm informed about which node version I'm working with.

My issue is that upon install, I couldn't see the symbol for the branch prefix.
my zsh configuration is pretty minimal, but what I could find is that $SPACESHIP_GIT_SYMBOL needs to be set right.

grepping around in the ~/.oh-my-zsh folder yields this

./custom/themes/spaceship.zsh-theme:91:SPACESHIP_GIT_SYMBOL="${SPACESHIP_GIT_SYMBOL:=" "}"

Screenshot

example output

workspace/repos/nodejs on  aa-update-parser-order [!] is 📦 v via ⬢ v6.10.3

Environment

Operating system: Mac OSX
Terminal emulator: Iterm
ZSH version: zsh 5.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin16.0)

Relevant .zshrc

No additional configuration

[salmanulfarzy]

Thank you @adnasa for the comments.

Which font are you using with your terminal ? It's [preferred to use a powerline] patched font like [FiraCode] or [others] for GIT_SYMBOL.

[adnasa]

hmm. I did have Fira Code in some of my profiles. no change. I'll try the others and see what happens. I'll follow this up with my findings and close the issues once it is resolved.

thanks for the quick reply :)

[salmanulfarzy]

@adnasa Any update on this issue ?

[adnasa]

@sfarzy I still have this issue. I'll look into the other fonts for GIT_SYMBOL in the morning. sorry it's taken me so long

[adnasa]

hey @sfarzy unfortunately, even after installing and trying out a handful of powerline fonts available I didn't manage to get that awesome symbol.

none-the-less, I accept . I'll consider it unique to my mac 😁
I wish I could provide more information than what I did on the PR description.

I'll close this for now.

thank you for your time.

[salmanulfarzy]

Well If you could, Also try the following solutions

• Change both ASCII and non-ASCII fonts

• Repair powerline fonts in "Font Book"
• Reinstall powerline fonts

Ref:

• https://github.com/powerline/fonts/issues/44
• https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/issues/2869
• https://powerline.readthedocs.io/en/master/troubleshooting/osx.html

[adnasa]

@sfarzy OMG!!!
I got it now!
I had Monaco on the Non-ASCII Font setting 💟

thank you! 😘

[salmanulfarzy]

Glad it was resolved 👍

[lizyn]

Well, I have the same issue here. And I'm using Monaco for both ASCII Font and Non-ASCII Font, but the symbol still can't display properly. Should I try Fira code?

[adnasa]

It's preferred to use a powerline patched font like FiraCode or others for GIT_SYMBOL.

@lizyn

[lizyn]

I misunderstood what you said and changed the font setting to Monaco. Silly of me! Thanks for the quick reply.

[lizyn]

Tried Fira Code and worked.

[ecbrodie]

I just ran into this issue myself and I think, as a new user of Powerline Fonts, that it would have been helpful if I was prompted to switch my font in the README. I'm going to apply a patch now.