Remnant characters when tab completing with ZSH

Question

I\'m using oh-my-zsh in Arch linux with the robbyrussell theme loaded. When I try to tab complete I end up with remnant characters appended to the prompt. If I delete the auto-c

Answer 1

It seems I had issues with locale configuration and non UTF8 configuration

In my case the fix was:

export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

and keep it permanent adding the line to .zshrc:

echo "export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8" >> .zshrc

More info in Ubuntu doc https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale