Installing powerline fonts for zsh + Prezto theme

If you're a macOS user, the Powerline glyphs are now built-in to iTerm (as of 3.3.7, 17 Nov 2019) but disabled by default.

You can enable the fonts by toggling the checkbox in iTerm > Preferences > Profiles > Text:

Any newly opened Terminal windows will render supported Unicode characters as glyphs, as shown the following screenshot test.

$ echo "\ue0b0 \u00b1 \ue0a0 \u27a6 \u2718 \u26a1 \u2699"

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If you'd rather manually manage the installation of the Powerline Symbols, you can use Homebrew Casks:

$ brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts

$ brew cask install font-powerline-symbols

This will install the PowerlineSymbols.otf typeface for you to use system-wide.

It is all about the Powerline symbols.

To get the Powerline symbols working as [email protected] has:

1. Download a Powerline font. A good font for downloading can be found at https://github.com/powerline/fonts

2. Install it by running ./install.sh.

3. Change the font in your Terminal preferences to use the new Powerline font.

4. Test! To test the glyphs in a terminal: echo "\ue0b0 \u00b1 \ue0a0 \u27a6 \u2718 \u26a1 \u2699"

The prior instructions were intended for Mac OS version 10.11 with Terminal, but may work similar for other setups.

On Windows - just * download some Powerline font like: https://github.com/abertsch/Menlo-for-Powerline/raw/master/Menlo%20for%20Powerline.ttf
* Install it by clicking the file twice
* Choose the new font in properties
That's it!