Terminal prompt and text displays extra spaces in IntelliJ IDE (terminal font is very wide)

Problem

The terminal font in Mac contains extra spaces (zsh) Example:

Resolution:

This issue is caused by a system locale conflict between UTF-8 and UTF-16. Follow these steps to resolve it:

1. Run the following command to check your locale settings:

locale

2. If any of the settings (like LANG or LC_* variables) are incorrect or unset, reset them to the correct values. For instance, if you're using US English, use the following commands:

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

To make these changes permanent, add the lines above to your .zshrc file and restart the terminal.