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

[Axel Beckert]

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Hi Connor,

Connor Glosser wrote:
> After further investigation, I've checked this with Terminator, guake,
> xfce4-terminal, xterm, and urxvt, all of which display replacement
> characters. Curiously, though, things work perfectly in TTY1.

Indeed interesting.

> I also checked my locale, but the output looks the same as on your system:
[...]
> > Just to be sure: Did you call reportbug in one of the terminals where
> > this happened?
> >
> > Since it's the replacement character: Maybe there is the proper font
> > missing?
> 
> Indeed, I ran reportbug from the same terminator window I used for my
> initial screenshot.

Ok, so there's not much left anymore. :-/

> I also just checked through several fonts, both fixed- and
> free-width, all of which still show replacement characters. In
> particular, I made sure to try both monospace and inconsolata as
> they worked on an old Wheezy installation I had.

Actually the terminator window I screenshotted seems to use Monospace
at size 9 (seems to be the system's default. I just changed it to
Monospace 10 (to be sure it's really Monospace) and it still works.

Using gucharmap's "Show only glyphs from this font" I could also
verify that Monospace contains these box drawing glyphs.

Not that I have an idea how it can help to track this down, but in
case you have gucharmap installed, can you check if see any glyph when
you select the unicode block "Box Drawing"? (You may need to change the
view to "by Unicode block".)

> Here is the output of my font listing:

Following is the diff to mine. But since we both seem to have tested
Monospace, and Monospace can display these box-drawing glyphs
according to gucharmap, I'm no more confident that this will help that
much.

One thing I noticed is that you seem to have fonts-opensymbol from
backports while I have the one from stable -- besides different sets
of font packages.

> fonts-arphic-bkai00mp 2.10-13
> fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp 2.10-14
> fonts-arphic-gbsn00lp 2.11-13
> fonts-arphic-gkai00mp 2.11-13
> fonts-baekmuk 2.2-11
> fonts-beteckna 0.4-8
> fonts-cabinsketch 1.02-2
> fonts-cantarell 0.0.16-1
> fonts-dancingscript 1.2-1
> fonts-dkg-handwriting 0.15-1
> fonts-dosis 1.7-2
> fonts-dustin 20030517-10
> fonts-f500 1.0-5
> fonts-fantasque-sans 1.6.4~dfsg-1
> fonts-fanwood 1.1-3
> fonts-georgewilliams 20031023-2
< fonts-gfs-baskerville 1.1-5
< fonts-gfs-bodoni-classic 1.1-5
< fonts-gfs-didot-classic 1.1-5
< fonts-gfs-gazis 1.1-5
< fonts-gfs-porson 1.1-6
< fonts-gfs-theokritos 1.1-5
< fonts-hosny-amiri 0.107-1
> fonts-guru 2:1.2
> fonts-guru-extra 2.0-3
> fonts-humor-sans 1.0-1
< fonts-ipaexfont-gothic 00201-4
< fonts-ipaexfont-mincho 00201-4
> fonts-ipafont 00303-12
> fonts-junction 20110525.18de841-1
> fonts-kacst-one 5.0+svn11846-7
> fonts-lao 0.0.20060226-9
> fonts-lindenhill 1.2-3
> fonts-lohit-guru 2.5.3-2
> fonts-lyx 2.1.2-2
> fonts-mathjax 2.4-2
> fonts-mgopen 1.1-9
> fonts-mikachan 9.1-9
> fonts-mplus 057-2
> fonts-nanum 20140930-1
> fonts-ocr-a 1.0-6
> fonts-okolaks 0.5-6
> fonts-oldstandard 2.2really-3
> fonts-opendin 0.1-4
> fonts-opendyslexic 20130616-1
> fonts-opensymbol 2:102.6+LibO4.3.3-2+deb8u1
< fonts-opensymbol 2:102.6+LibO5.0.2-1~bpo8+1
> fonts-play 1.002+20111215.1+ds2-1
> fonts-powerline 1.2-2
> fonts-roboto 1:4.4.4r2-6
> fonts-rufscript 010-5
< fonts-texgyre 20140520-1
> fonts-taml-tscu 1.0-2
> fonts-thai-tlwg 1:0.6.1-2
> fonts-tlwg-garuda 1:0.6.1-2
> fonts-tlwg-kinnari 1:0.6.1-2
> fonts-tlwg-laksaman 1:0.6.1-2
> fonts-tlwg-loma 1:0.6.1-2
> fonts-tlwg-mono 1:0.6.1-2
> fonts-tlwg-norasi 1:0.6.1-2
> fonts-tlwg-purisa 1:0.6.1-2
> fonts-tlwg-sawasdee 1:0.6.1-2
> fonts-tlwg-typewriter 1:0.6.1-2
> fonts-tlwg-typist 1:0.6.1-2
> fonts-tlwg-typo 1:0.6.1-2
> fonts-tlwg-umpush 1:0.6.1-2
> fonts-tlwg-waree 1:0.6.1-2
> fonts-tomsontalks 1.1-4
> fonts-tuffy 20120614-2
> fonts-ubuntu-title 1:0.3-2
> fonts-vlgothic 20140801-1
> fonts-vollkorn 3.005-1
> fonts-wqy-microhei 0.2.0-beta-2
> fonts-wqy-zenhei 0.9.45-6
> fonts-yanone-kaffeesatz 0.20100525-5
> ttf-ancient-fonts 2.57-1
> ttf-anonymous-pro 1.002-1
> ttf-atarismall 2.1-4
> ttf-dejavu 2.34-1
> ttf-dejavu-extra 2.34-1
> ttf-kochi-mincho 20030809-15
> ttf-lyx 2.1.2-2
> ttf-marvosym 0.1+dfsg-2
> ttf-radisnoir 0.9b-2
> ttf-sjfonts 2.0.2-1.1
> ttf-summersby 1.007-3.1
> ttf-wqy-microhei 0.2.0-beta-2
> xfonts-100dpi-transcoded 1:1.0.3
> xfonts-75dpi-transcoded 1:1.0.3
> xfonts-cyrillic 1:1.0.3
> xfonts-intl-asian 1.2.1-8
> xfonts-intl-japanese 1.2.1-8
> xfonts-intl-japanese-big 1.2.1-8
> xfonts-terminus 4.39-1

I'll later also check two other machines with different setups to see
if I can reproduce the issue there.

		Regards, Axel
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