strange offset of special characters

Required information for bugs. I probably can't help you unless you include this:

• iTerm2 version: 2.9.20160206
• OS version: 10.11
• Attach ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist com.googlecode.iterm2.plist
• Attach a debug log (https://iterm2.com/debuglog) debuglog.txt

Issue:

note the strange offset of the characters of my path... it works fine in the current stable

if this isn't iterm2 issue just let me know who to poke to see it get fix!

Milestone changed to Ship 3.0

That debug log doesn't seem to include your prompt in it so I can't reproduce this. Maybe the easiest thing to do would be this:

1. Shell>Log>Start
2. Press enter to print out a new prompt
3. Shell>Log>Stop
4. Attach log file to this issue.

it shows on any input so even just $ clear shows that arrow too low or the path too high, not sure which one is the culprit. I'm using zsh as my default shell. I don't think the log will help because my zsh launches and setups stuff before I don't know if any of the might be messing it up. would you like me to attached my .zshrc ?

so actually it's definitely the special characters... strange

note that multiple of them stray below the background of the text...
I tried a few more powerline fonts and found the special characters move around a lot I think they have a rendering issue, because at first load it works for literally only the first line but any other command messes the special characters up...

The log would be sufficient; there is no setup that could affect how these characters render in your prompt.

iterm.logfile

Okay log was attached!

I actually have 2 macs that have this issue (99% the same setup except some color lol) so let me know if you want to try/test anything!

I have exact same problem.

iTerm2: Build 2.9.20160206

iterm.log

Looks like a mismatch between the ASCII and non-ASCII fonts. This can mess up alignment. Here's what I see in prefs:

        "Non Ascii Font" = "FiraMonoForPowerline-Regular 12";
        "Normal Font" = "FiraMonoForPowerline 11";

Turn off Prefs > Profiles > Text > Use a different font for non-ASCII text, since it doesn't look like you really need that feature.

Status changed to closed

@gnachman I just tried turning off that feature but sadly this did not fix the offset. I attached a new log and screen shot...

iterm2.log

if you would like me to attached any other updated files just let me know!

Status changed to reopened

I found at least two slightly different versions of Fira Mono Regular for Powerline. None of them looked perfect in Terminal or iTerm2, but one was better (I can't tell which since the names are the same!). This looks like an issue with the font. If you can point me at a font that looks right in Terminal then I'll try to figure out what's going on there. Best I could do was this:

So some interesting news I installed an older version of iTerm2 and took a look at the power line fonts. Apparently they have always been offset like this. But previously, iTerm (i'm guessing) hid anything that "overflowed" onto the next line. So now it's very obvious, because it does overflow, before you had to really really pay attention. So it is the fonts!

Thanks for your time !

Status changed to closed

@gabeio You're right, there was a fix for v3 to support glyphs that are over-height which makes this bug much more apparent.