I couldn't get the Consolas font to build with FontForge, so I reverted to Eugeneching's great work on creating a font for the previous verion of Powerline. I am sure the is a simpler way - but this is what has worked (on the whole) for me with GVim Portable
Font and tools to help insert unicode characters
- https://github.com/eugeneching/consolas-powerline-vim
- http://www.fileformat.info/tool/unicodeinput/unicodeinput.zip
Use unicodeinput app to help insert the characters into your config files.
path: powerline\powerline\config_files\themes\vim\default.json
- Git branch: U+2B60
- Line number: U+2B6
path: powerline\powerline\config_files\config.json
###Dividers
- Hard left: U+2B80
- Soft left: U+2B81
- Hard right: U+2B82
- Soft right: U+2B83
- F: U+2b62
- T: U+2b63
- Lock: U+2b64