vim-powerline status line looks wierd

Question

I installed powerline plugin, downloaded a patched font and did a fc-cache -vf ~/.fonts. I then cleared the PowerlineClearCache and restarted vim. My status line looks like this. What am I missing?

NORMAL ⮀ Scripts/os_walk.py ⮀ ⮂ unix ⮃ utf-8 ⮃ python ⮂ 8% ⮂ ⭡ 2:1

I have this line in my .vimrc let g:Powerline_symbols = 'fancy'

Answer 1

I was trying this on mac OSX (Leopard) and apparently many mac users have this problem. Then I downloaded iterm2 and tried the steps suggested by this fantastic post and now it works as expected! http://alexyoung.org/2012/01/13/using-powerline-with-mac-os/