I noticed today that my zsh-prompt in the tty's didn't show the same letters as in the terminal emulators. First I thought I might have a corrupted ~/.zshrc.local, but while it showed the correct encoding in geany as well as in the terminal editors in X, it showed a sequence of letters (sth like "ßäü") instead of "┌─" when editing it in the tty. Invoking 'locale -a' shows as possible locales "en_GB.utf8", while my locale in rc.conf was set to "en_GB.UTF-8". Changing the line in rc.conf to the locale given by locale -a and rebooting solved the problem. My questions: 1. Did I find a solution to my problem, or a mere workaround that might create more problems after future updates? 2. Is the incorrect encoding in tty's a serious problem that might deserve some warning on the forums or even an announcement, or rather something more or less cosmetic? 3. (Now I admit to be a newbie...) Is this problem maybe limited to zsh, or does it also affect the majority(?) using bash?
