Powerline on Qtile Display Issue

# set locale
localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

# installed powerline
pip install powerline-status

# installed powerline patched fonts

# in Qtile config.py, imported powerline widget, set powerline font, and placed widget in first screen
from powerline.bindings.qtile.widget import PowerlineTextBox

widget_defaults = dict(
    font='ProFont for Powerline',
    fontsize=fsize,
    padding=3,
)
extension_defaults = widget_defaults.copy()


screen = [
Screen(
top=bar.Bar(
    [
        PowerlineTextBox(update_interval=2, side='left'),
        widget.Spacer(),
        PowerlineTextBox(update_interval=2, side='right'),
    ],
    30)
]

# result, powerline comes up on the top Qtile bar, but the text is a nonsense string, except for the date and time.

# Attempted to use Lembonbar instead, as well as powerline-lemonbar, but the first won't see any fonts, and the second failed with "ImportError: No module named powerline.lemonbar". Attempted to solve as outlined here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839599 by installing python3-powerline with no success.


# system: cpu Intel i7 8700, graphics: Nvidia rtx2060, OS: Linux Mint 19.3