Characters in Powershell not matching characters defined in theme

[jaschno]

Hi everybody,

I recently setup Powershell 7 in Windows Terminal to use oh-my-posh and the FiraCode nerd font. After the initial setup everything looked fine. After serveral reboots my console suddenly looks like this:

Versions:

• Powershell: 7.3.7.0
• oh-my-posh: 18.9.1
• Windows Terminal: 1.17.11461.0
• Theme: jandedobbeleer

The behavior is the same in Powershell 7 and 5 and in Windows Terminal and the standard windows console host.

Windows Terminal is using the correct Font in the settings.

It seems that oh-my-posh is displaying the wrong unicode character. The first symbol should be \ue0b6 but is \u00af.

Any ideas? I am lost 😁.

For Ref, here is the unicode string of my console prompt: ¯é Jan ¯é░¯é░ ¯¬â dev ¯é░¯é░ ¯«ó 35msÔáǯé░ ¯ê║ ¯é┤ ¯é ´Æë pwsh ¯é▓¯é▓ ¯ê» 100´èò ¯é▓¯é▓ 10:26:54 ¯é┤

[JanDeDobbeleer]

The encoding in your device/terminal/shell is wrong. You can try the same fix as indicated here.

[jaschno]

Hi Jan, thanks for your answer, I managed to figure it out, my powershell was running in constrained language mode which probably messed with the initialization of oh-my-posh. By changing the environment variable (__PSLockdownPolicy) from 4 (restrained) to 8 (full language) everything looks good again.

Really cool tool by the way, thank you very much for the effort :).