On May 31, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Adrian Robert wrote:
> This one beats me as fdesc is used much before then.  However it  
> made me notice a typo just above: line 496 should be:
>
> 	if (ns_has_attribute (desc, NSFontSlantTrait))


OK, this helps.  No more crashes.
It can display more characters now, like the up-arrow in the  
screenshots I'm attaching.

However, it still uses the wrong fonts for symbols (and for greek) (- 
apple-MS_Mincho in my case).  I think that's what you pointed out  
earlier.

Following a posting here by Kenichi Handa here (and Jason's message in  
this thread):

http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1399

I tried this:

(set-fontset-font
   "fontset-default"
   'symbol
   '("Lucida Grande" . "iso10646-1"))

This works great for Lucida, but I couldn't get Monaco or Courier New  
to work.

As has been pointed out the greek characters probably shouldn't be  
"symbol" in the first place.