[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#802700: zsh: 8bit adam2 prompt incorrectly displays unicode replacement characters

[Connor Glosser]

Package: zsh
Version: 5.0.7-5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I have a fresh Debian (XFCE) + Zsh installation with

  autoload -Uz promptinit
  promptinit
  prompt adam2 8bit

in my .zshrc file. The "prompt adam2 8bit" command loads in the adam2 prompt
with 8bit characters (largely box-drawing characters) used to place a
horizontal rule across the terminal window. On my system, however, many of
these characters have been replaced with � replacement characters (among
other issues such as "random" line endings). The problem persists across
different terminal applications as well as different fonts. I have included
a
screenshot of the effect.

-- Package-specific info:

Packages which provide vendor completions:
ii  pulseaudio     7.0-1~bpo8+1 amd64        PulseAudio sound server
ii  systemd        215-17+deb8u amd64        system and service manager

dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/share/zsh/vendor-functions

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages zsh depends on:
ii  dpkg        1.17.25
ii  libc6       2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  libcap2     1:2.24-8
ii  libtinfo5   5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  zsh-common  5.0.7-5

Versions of packages zsh recommends:
ii  libncursesw5  5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libpcre3      2:8.35-3.3

Versions of packages zsh suggests:
pn  zsh-doc  <none>

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