In zsh the date format for names isn't displayed properly

Question

I don't know what's wrong or if I'm stupid or something, but I just can't get to display the date with words :(

I've been trying this for hours now..

It should display Mon, but it displays a "M" with weird signs.. Every date format that is numeric works fine. It just doesn't display names for days and months.

my locale is set like this:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

And this is inserted in RPROMPT for the display: %D{%a}

Oh I almost forgot - when I press alt-f4 to get to the console, it displays the date format properly.

Answer 1

The real question is: what does locale -a returns?

• First determine which locales you have installed in your computer with locale -a
• then set LANG LC_* accordingly.

Hint: In some systems you need to use en_US.utf8 instead of en_US.UTF8