Sorry for not replying before! I have no special code in the .emacs file apart from the specification of which font to use. Today on a fresh arch GNU/linux install where I installed the package "emacs-cvs" (23.0.60) and didn't have an .emacs file, the problem was still there, when I started emacs this way: emacs --font "FONT_WHICH_INCLUDES_THE_GLYPHS_AND_WORKS_IN_DEC_2007_VERSION-FONTSIZE" The glyphs in PUA just show up as boxes Best regards Alex On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Jason Rumney wrote: > Alex Speed Kjeldsen wrote: > >> It seems to work ok with one for me very important exception: glyphs in >> the Private Use Area are not rendered correctly. They simply appear as empty >> boxes in the buffers. This bug seems to have been around for quite some time >> (introduced somewhere between December and February, I think -- judging from >> the ubuntu packages maintained by Alexandre Vassalotti). >> >> > > What code do you have in your .emacs relating to display of those > characters? > > >