Corrupted prompt in ZSH on triggering completion

[jeka]

Corrupted prompt in ZSH on triggering completion

[jeka]

Since nowadays it's quite easy to do checks across Linux distributions I spent some time on that.
All the checks are done with distrobox:

• spawn new container with empty user home dir.
• install zsh
• install starship
• activate starship
  The result:
  Ubuntu 22.04 - exhibits the problem described above
  Ubuntu 23.10 - exhibits the problem described above
  RHEL 9 - broken (actually its broken in the same way even before activating starship)
  Fedora 38 - exhibits the problem described above
  Fedora 39 - exhibits the problem described above
  OpenSUSE Leap - exhibits the problem described above
  I stopped here.

Also, I checked starship versions back to version v1.16.0 with the same outcome.
I hope this helps.

[jeka]

Further info,
I tacked it down to a problem with the 'character' prompt plugin/module(?).
It's broken if UTF-8 character is used as $symbol.
If I replace the fancy '❯' with ASCII '>' the problem goes away.

Strangely enough, it's broken only under ZSH, I tried BASH and FISH and the problem does not show under these shells.

[jeka]

Sorry for the noise.

The problem was with my local config.
My locale (LC_xxx) variables got messed up at some point of time (set to non-UTF locale).

Setting them properly fixed the problem.