Mention problems that might occur when LANG/encoding is not set up correctly

Tobias Pflug 2013-12-21 10:24:32 -08:00
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If you are using rxvt-unicode, try using an odd font size, 11, 13, 15 etc. in your .Xdefaults
If you are using vim in the Terminal on OSX, check that the environment variables `LC_ALL` and `LANG` are set to a sensible value (such as en_US.UTF8). If `:echo encoding` does not show `utf8` there is a very good chance that these settings are not correct.
#### The powerline font symbols are partially messed up
You are likely using the [fontconfig](https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation/linux.html#font-installation) method. If that is the case, you need to override the space character like so: