Powerline in develop branch still isn't quite right

[bgamari]

@syl20bnr noted in #2602 that powerline should be more robust in the develop branch due to a rework by @TheBB. Sadly it seems that things still aren't quite right (or there is still something wrong with my configuration, running on Debian testing). See the attached screenshot take with spacemacs 8ea8b65.

The circled K symbol looks as though it might be the culprit although I don't know why.

[syl20bnr]

Do you have nanum-fonts package installed in your distro ?

[bgamari]

Sylvain Benner notifications@github.com writes:

Do you have nanum-fonts package installed in your distro ?

Nope.

[TheBB]

The modeline refactoring was strictly on the segment generation side. It shouldn't have caused or fixed any such problems. This looks like a font issue—you might have an inappropriate fallback for those symbols. I'm willing to bet that it looks fine if you turn the unicode symbols off—not that I'm suggesting that as a genuine workaround, of course.

[bgamari]

@TheBB how would one go about doing that?

[TheBB]

There's a setting in the dotfile for it. Just open that and search for "unicode".

I'm using a unicode-less modeline myself. Easier to read and fewer surprises that way.

[bgamari]

@TheBB indeed you are right, disabling unicode characters in the modeline does resolve the issue.

How would one go about further debugging this?

[syl20bnr]

There's a setting in the dotfile for it. Just open that and search for "unicode".

or SPC f e h unicode RET :-)

[syl20bnr]

Actually one has to select the second entry...