Powerline symbols aren't working?

Question

Hi I'm trying to use a power line theme for zsh and although I've installed the Powerline-symbols.otf and various fonts from the https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts repo, I cannot get the Powerline prompt to show the symbols. Instead I get [X]'s where the symbols should be.

I'm using terminal and made sure that it is set to xterm-256 colours and utf-8 encoding.

Answer 1

Just downloading and installing the fonts is not enough. In order to get the Powerline symbols, you need to tell Terminal to use one of the patched fonts you downloaded.

This can be done from the menu Terminal->Preferences.... In Settings->Text click on the button Change... in the section Font. Choose any font with "Powerline" in its name and you should get to see the Powerline symbols.