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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by rbanffy on Saturday April 03, 2021 @04:55AM (#26679390)
I think it depends on a font supporting them correctly. I’m using a zsh prompt that uses them and it seems normal. Check https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font and let me know if it helps. I was thinking of adding the powerline symbols to the test renderings.
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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by vetinari on Saturday April 03, 2021 @05:58AM (#26679683)
The problem is not with font glyphs, but with colors. Background and foreground colors that should be the same aren't, they are different shades, thus some themes (such as powelevel9k/powerlevek10k) appear broken, see https://imgur.com/a/HAcE4Yu

And the line height -- it could be font, it could be terminal, I didn't investigate (it is DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline).

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by rbanffy on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:47AM (#26680241)
Terminal allows fine tuning the spacing. I tried to optimise my font to look good on the default settings, but that doesn’t always work and never works for every program.
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