Rendering random square glyph on Ubuntu 16.10

[chopfitzroy]

I have a terminal theme that is working fine on Xfce Terminal but rendering with an odd square glyph on alacritty like so:

Xfce Terminal:

Alacritty Terminal:

Please let me know if this is caused by something else I am assuming it is alacritty simply because it works in another terminal but my knowledge of fonts/glyphs is pretty limited.

Cheers.

[jwilm]

Hmm that's a bit goofy. Would you mind sharing your PS1? Seems like Alacritty is getting a value for some glyph that Xfce doesn't.

[chopfitzroy]

Hey, sorry I did a bit of googling but could not figure out what my SP1 was. Could you possibly provide a link with the steps to find it :).

Cheers.

[jwilm]

If you run env | grep $PS1 it should show up.

[chopfitzroy]

Hey so I tried that and got no output, the I tried echo $PS1 which returned nothing so I just ran env and have attached the output.

Let me know if there is anything else I can do.
ENV.txt

[dywedir]

Are you using fish shell? If so, could you please runfish_prompt > prompt.txt and attach it?

[jwilm]

@CrashyBang

Oh my gosh; I totally brain farted on that grep line earlier. Glad you figured it out though.

[chopfitzroy]

Have attached fish_prompt.
prompt.txt

[lukaslueg]

Besides color, your prompt is HEAVY CHECK MARK, VARIATION SELECTOR-15, SPACE, TILDE, SPACE. I strongly suspect that VARIATION SELECTOR-15 is the one rendered as a box in Alacritty. If you remove it, things should be fine. Alacritty could be better at handling unicode, though.

[chopfitzroy]

Hey @lukaslueg I removed the VARIATION SELECTOR-15 and it is all working, I can always revert later when unicode support is better :).

@jwilm should I leave this open awaiting unicode support or close?

[lukaslueg]

I'd suggest to close this in favor of #306

[chopfitzroy]

Closed in favour of #306.