SSH session error: ~/powerlevel9k_cfg: 15: character not in range

[drew1kun]

Good day.
I have set up oh-my-zsh with powerlevel9k on both of my mac machines and it works fine without errors.

But when I ssh from one to another, I get the following warning/error:

~/powerlevel9k_cfg: 15: character not in range

Locales:

user@macbook% locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Again, this message does not pop up on the machines - only when establishing SSH session.
sshd_config:

AuthorizedKeysFile ssh/authorized_keys
UsePAM yes
AcceptEnv LANG LC_*
Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/sftp-server

What could be a reason of this error?

[drew1kun]

Ok, kinda figured this out.. for some reason my custom config variables looked like this:

...
POWERLEVEL9K_LEFT_SEGMENT_SEPARATOR=$'\uE0B0'
...

Although, IT RENDERS THE THEME PROPERLY (That is why it is so hard to find out), it must be set like:

...
POWERLEVEL9K_LEFT_SEGMENT_SEPARATOR="\uE0B0"
...

Otherwise it returns the error above... Also, if it is set properly, but the error still appears (happened to me on Debian), then it is a locale problem which can be fixed as described here

[bhilburn]

@drew-kun - Oh wow, that's a subtle detail! I'm glad you got it figured out =)

Would you be up for adding a note about this to the Troubleshooting wiki?

[onaforeignshore]

IIRC, this was discussed quite a while ago on Gitter, but I can't remember why we need the $ in front? All the UNICODE icons are declared this way in icons.zsh.

[drew1kun]

@bhilburn Sure I will modify the wiki and make a pull request later when I have time ;)

[bhilburn]

@drew-kun - Thanks so much! Feel free to edit the wiki without a PR - it's open-access.

[drew1kun]

where would I put screenshots?
I will look much nicer and informative with screenshots

[bhilburn]

Ah, yes, screenshots. Use the old "Issue Image" trick ;)

Basically, post your screenshots here. Then, use those image URLs in the wiki. Quick and easy!

[drew1kun]

Incorrect rendering with POWERLEVEL9K_LEFT_SEGMENT_SEPARATOR=$'\uE0B0'

Correct rendering with POWERLEVEL9K_LEFT_SEGMENT_SEPARATOR="\uE0B0" format