Broken icons when open project from terminal

[redVi]

• VSCode Version: 1.12.1
• OS Version: macOS Sierra

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open terminal an run code path_to_folder

2. The icons look awful (after update to 1.12.1)

[jenswegar]

I'm seeing the same thing. Opening from terminal with code /path/to/project draws all icons in the UI as strange artifacts. Opening the same project by first opening vscode, then using file->open recent draws the UI as expected.

macOS sierra 10.12.4
vscode: 1.12.1

[hannupekka]

Same here.

OSX El Capitan 10.11.6
VSCode 1.12.1

[bpasero]

This is #24820 but I wonder why my workaround is not working as expected in main.js

@redVi @jenswegar @hannupekka can you send me the contents of your shell environment? You can quickly get there by running process.env from the console when developer tools are open (from the help menu):

[redVi]

@bpasero yes, this is the same reason. I removed locale settings export LC_CTYPE and export LC_ALL and now the artifacts are gone.

[bpasero]

@redVi and so what are the values you have for LC_CTYPE and LC_ALL?

[redVi]

@bpasero

export LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
export LC_ALL="ru_RU.UTF-8"

[hannupekka]

@bpasero from my process.env output:

LC_ALL: "fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE: "fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE: "fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES: "fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY: "fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC: "C"
LC_TIME: "fi_FI.UTF-8"

[bpasero]

Closing as duplicate of #24820. It looks like having an environment variable LC_ALL with certain languages is enough to trigger this issue. In #24820 I was pushing a workaround when LC_NUMERIC is defined but this does not seem to be enough.

There are three options for people hitting this:

• start VS code from the dock instead of terminal
• make sure LC_ALL is not set when running from the command line
• use our insiders build where I just pushed a fix (http://code.visualstudio.com/Download#insiders)