Change:
"vscode-proxy-agent": "^0.12.0", "vscode-regexpp": "^3.1.0", "vscode-textmate": "8.0.0", <del> "xterm": "5.1.0-beta.63", "xterm-addon-canvas": "0.3.0-beta.27", </del> <ins> "xterm": "5.1.0-beta.82", "xterm-addon-canvas": "0.3.0-beta.33", </ins> "xterm-addon-search": "0.11.0-beta.7", "xterm-addon-serialize": "0.9.0-beta.3", "xterm-addon-unicode11": "0.5.0-beta.5", <del> "xterm-addon-webgl": "0.14.0-beta.40", "xterm-headless": "5.1.0-beta.63", </del> <ins> "xterm-addon-webgl": "0.14.0-beta.46", "xterm-headless": "5.1.0-beta.82", </ins> "yauzl": "^2.9.2", "yazl": "^2.4.3" },

Discussion:
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does changing help?
Your whole file would be helpful, I haven't seen any powerline rendering problems recently
For : and - Display the regression shown above Slightly dimmer  Looks perfect!  Here is my , though I did have to scrub some things that were for in-house extensions from my workplace:
This regression just got even worse in 1.73.

Now is also showing the weird rendering that and show (the original screenshot).
Ok this confused me a bit initially, we don't render those via the new custom glyphs which is the real fix to this. Created upstream: Could you verify that the characters that look bad are indeed unicode e0b8-eobf? I'm not sure currently if they're meant to be double width or if different fonts do them either single or double width.
I ran this bit of javscript (copy/pasted the powerline glyph from my prompt) and got which is E0BE Ha, of course it doesn't show correct here, but in VSCode it was displaying the glyph in the editor.
Thanks for clarifying
Do we know roughly when we'll get traction on the upstream issue? My prompt looks great in all applications accept for VSCode now. I wouldn't expect this kind of regression from VSCode usually.
hopefully it'll make it into 1.75, released early Feb.
Current state (webgl, edge dev, Hack NF): !
To verify: Test characters through using all values of using a font that does not support Nerd Font glyphs. Before ! After !