When I use `describe-fontset', I get output that starts out something like: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Fontset: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-xterm.default CHAR RANGE (CODE RANGE) FONT NAME (REQUESTED and [OPENED]) C-@ .. 􏿿 (#x43 .. #x10FFFF) -Misc-Fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-75-75-c-120-ISO10646-1 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Notice how #x43 is NOT a representation of `?\C-@' but, in fact, of `?C'? That's fairly strange bug. (Why would you try to extract the codepoints AFTER formatting the range as a string ...?) (I also get an assload of xlfd descriptors full of asterisks and dashes, with different registry-coding pairs...) 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