Ken'ichi, using a CVS build from about 24h ago, I still see the problem with diacritical characters taken from another font. In the attached image, the blue font is -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-170-100-100-c-120-iso8859-1 while the large `umlaut U' is -monotype-Arial-bold-normal-normal-*-32-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 Here is the minimal `.emacs' file to reproduce the problem: (defvar fontset-24 "-*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-24") (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec fontset-24) (setq default-frame-alist '((font . "fontset-24"))) (require 'tex-site) (require 'tex) Note that my fontconfig engine is configured to return bitmap fonts also. Werner