>> The font is called `emmentaler-brace.otf' (part of lilypond, >> containing system braces for musical scores). However, I wonder >> how this font can ever be considered as a fallback, since its SFNT >> (3,1) Unicode cmap contains only PUA character codes in the range >> 0xe100-0xe33f (and `fc-list -v' correctly lists that). In other >> words, this font definitely doesn't contain anything relevant to >> the CJK character codes originally reported. > > I asked for a backtrace from that loop: > >> Please show a C-level backtrace from a breakpoint in that loop. >> And if the breakpoint breaks more than once when you do nothing >> after invoking Emacs as shown in your OP, please show the >> backtraces from all the times that breakpoint breaks. >> >> Maybe looking at the backtrace will help us understand why Emacs >> attempts to open that font. > > Can you please produce that? I'd like to close this bug report, but > maybe the backtrace will show us that something else should be done > here. Attached. It contains all breaks between loading the test file in GB18030 encoding and displaying something on screen. This is still emacs bca6c434 (Apr 29). Calling `pp entity' at each break shows the following fonts. # # # # # # # # # # Werner