Fixing tmux Unicode and Italics Display Issues

When tmux fails to properly display italics text or unicode characters.

root cause

The issue occurs due to improper locale configuration in the shell environment.

solution

Add the following to ~/.bashrc:

export LC_ALL=en_IN.UTF-8
export LANG=en_IN.UTF-8

This sets the proper locale environment variables that tmux needs to correctly render italics and unicode characters.