Remnant characters when tab completing with ZSH

Question

I\'m using oh-my-zsh in Arch linux with the robbyrussell theme loaded. When I try to tab complete I end up with remnant characters appended to the prompt. If I delete the auto-c

Answer 1

Turns out it was a locale issue. Running locale-gen didn't work until I deleted some config file somewhere and reran it.

Your advice is good for the prompt though. Thank you.