Powerline symbol rendering

[Alok G Singh]

kitty seems to have some trouble with rendering . I have installed fonts-powerline and the setup works correctly on tilix, as can be seen at

http://home.alephnull.site/public/screenshots/tilix.png

Without setting symbolmap in kitty.conf, the original symbol at \ue0a0 is displayed

http://home.alephnull.site/public/screenshots/kitty-nosymbolmap.png

After setting

symbol_map U+E0A0-U+E0A2,U+E0B0-U+E0B3 PowerlineSymbols

There is a spurious character being displayed but the prompt text is identical in all three screenshots.

http://home.alephnull.site/public/screenshots/kitty-symbolmap.png

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: kitty 0.13.3-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-25.26-generic 5.0.18
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Sep 21 11:38:16 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-12-09 (285 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20181208)
SourcePackage: kitty
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Alok G Singh (alephnull-b)]

Adding screenshots as attachments

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.