title: Displaying ► character in Vim terminal lightline status bar
body: <p>I am working on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) and I am using Vim in terminal as my editor. I have recently installed a plugin called <em>lightline</em> from <a href="https://github.com/itchyny/lightline.vim" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/itchyny/lightline.vim</a>. The plugin uses special characters to make the status line look like this:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8vu6B.png" alt="enter image description here">
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  The > part of the bar is actually ► character coloured like the square next to it. The problem is that the bar, in my case, looks like this: </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zEYsk.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>The ► character is not displayed properly, although the encoding is set to UTF-8 and all the required fonts are installed on the system (fonts for powerline). In this case the font set on terminal is Liberation Mono for Powerline.</p>
  
  <p>Lightline settings in my vimrc:</p>
  
  <pre><code>set encoding=utf-8
  scriptencoding utf-8
  
  let g:lightline = {
     \ 'colorscheme': 'wombat',
     \ 'separator': {'left': "\u25B6", 'right': ''},
     \ 'subseparator': { 'left': '', 'right': ''}
     \ }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I also tried copying the ► character like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>let g:lightline = {
         \ 'colorscheme': 'wombat',
         \ 'separator': {'left': "►", 'right': ''},
         \ 'subseparator': { 'left': '', 'right': ''}
         \ }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But it manifests in the same way. </p>
  
  <p>Furthermore, there is a problem with ^ characters wherever there is supposed to be whitespace.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any solution for this?</p>