UTF-8 not displaying correctly in Cygwin+zsh using ConEmu

Question

I have installed the following things to use for development:

• ConEmu 15083c
• Recent Cygwin version
• Cygwin zsh-5.0.8
• Oh-My-Zsh
• This theme

Now, when choosing a theme I realized that the display of special characters is wrong. It looks like this:

4:53:04 PM  ~ 

Or as a screenshot:

which totally does not look like it is supposed to:

I've already followed ConEmu guide on enabling UTF-8 and went through the troubleshooting steps - nothing fixed my issue and all the checks looked good.

Answer 1

Use proper font, that's all.

https://github.com/caiogondim/bullet-train-oh-my-zsh-theme#requirements

Of course, you will not see "required" font in ConEmu dropdown. ConEmu must not bundle third-party font in its distro.

Also, the font is not required to be installed in the system fonts, as described in docs one may just copy it to ConEmu program folder.