In article <m2k5chg2qq.fsf@kenny.sha-bang.de>, Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de> writes:

> Well, no reason to believe in miracles:  Today I experienced the bug
> again an so I came up with a new receipt to reproduce it.  Its simpler
> than the first try and it showed for me the bug reproducible:

> 1. emacs -Q

> 2. C-h H    ; to bring up the Hello file
>             ; watch out for the German line: "Guten Tag, Gr$(D+d)N(B Gott"

> 3. M-x set-default-font RET terminus RET
>             ; now the bug shows: the umlauts are gone the line looks
>             ; like: "Guten Tag, Gr   Gott"

> C-u C-x =  on the vanished `$(D)N(B' shows:

I still can't reproduce it.  C-u C-x = shows exactly the
same output as yours (except for that $(D)N(B is shown
correctly).

By the way, in step 3, do you really see 3 spaces between
"Gr" and "Gott"?  Aren't there any other vanishing
characters?

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Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp