Unicode characters in emacs term-mode

Question

I use ansi-term for my normal terminal sessions. I tend to use unicode characters in my prompt to do things like set the trailing character based on the type of source cont

Answer 1

The following worked for me:

(add-hook 'term-exec-hook
          (function
           (lambda ()
             (set-buffer-process-coding-system 'utf-8-unix 'utf-8-unix))))

ansi-term seems to ignore the default-process-coding-system variable, so I had to set it buffer-locally after it executes my shell.