Loading the attached file `bug.el' (containing the single PUA character U+E6A3) with emacs -Q bug.el causes a crash: xdisp.c:28955: Emacs fatal error: assertion failed: it->ascent >= 0 && it->descent >= 0 I've also attached the output of `bt full'. Werner In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.20.10) of 2018-12-27 built on linux Repository revision: 806ae9fc48f59751a8fce543be40ffe473f548bf Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11803000 System Description: openSUSE Leap 42.3 Recent messages: Loading /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/cjk-enc.el (source)...done Loading /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/cjktilde.el (source)...done Loading /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/quail-reverse.el (source)...done Loading mew...done Loading calendar...done For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Making completion list... Quit Type C-x 1 to remove help window. Configured using: 'configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk --enable-checking=yes,glyphs --enable-check-lisp-object-type 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3 -gdwarf-4'' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM THREADS LIBSYSTEMD JSON LCMS2 Important settings: value of $LANG: de_AT.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: TeX-PDF-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/thai-word hides /usr/local/share/emacs/27.0.50/lisp/language/thai-word Features: (shadow pp mew-varsx mew-unix emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mail-utils apropos elec-pair edmacro kmacro rng-nxml rng-valid rng-loc rng-uri rng-parse nxml-parse rng-match rng-dt rng-util rng-pttrn nxml-ns nxml-mode nxml-outln nxml-rap nxml-util nxml-enc xmltok sgml-mode dom hideshow cal-menu calendar cal-loaddefs mew-auth mew-config mew-imap2 mew-imap mew-nntp2 mew-nntp mew-pop mew-smtp mew-ssl mew-ssh mew-net mew-highlight mew-sort mew-fib mew-ext mew-refile mew-demo mew-attach mew-draft mew-message mew-thread mew-virtual mew-summary4 mew-summary3 mew-summary2 mew-summary mew-search mew-pick mew-passwd mew-scan mew-syntax mew-bq mew-smime mew-pgp mew-header mew-exec mew-mark mew-mime mew-edit mew-decode mew-encode mew-cache mew-minibuf mew-complete mew-addrbook mew-local mew-vars3 mew-vars2 mew-vars mew-env mew-mule3 mew-mule mew-gemacs mew-key mew-func mew-blvs mew-const mew tex dbus xml crm advice auto-loads tex-site quail help-mode cjktilde mm-util mail-prsvr disp-table finder-inf package easymenu epg-config url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache json map url-vars seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 202452 4316) (symbols 48 30527 61) (strings 32 71159 885) (string-bytes 1 1786347) (vectors 16 27728) (vector-slots 8 678829 13622) (floats 8 80 76) (intervals 56 645 221) (buffers 992 13) (heap 1024 50769 2024))