On OSX, this pretest release breaks render of some unicode chars. ;;; 😀😂 (set-frame-font "Monaco:pixelsize=16") (set-fontset-font (frame-parameter nil 'font) 'symbol (font-spec :family "Apple Color Emoji") nil 'prepend) there should be two symbols in the first line of above snippets if rendered correctly. BTW, the last pretest does not have such issue. the version of last pretest is: GNU Emacs 25.0.92.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS appkit-1265.21 Version 10.9.5 (Build 13F1603)) of 2016-03-03 Thanks. In GNU Emacs 25.0.93.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS appkit-1265.21 Version 10.9.5 (Build 13F1603)) of 2016-04-23 built on builder10-9.local Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1404 Configured using: 'configure --with-ns '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/${version}/site-lisp:/Library/Application Support/Emacs/site-lisp'' Configured features: NOTIFY ACL LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS Important settings: value of $LANG: zh_CN.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: Mark set [2 times] Undo! nil [2 times] Mark set [4 times] Making completion list... Quit Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epg epg-config gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns help-mode easymenu cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date mule-util china-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel ns-win ucs-normalize term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote kqueue cocoa ns multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 196958 18232) (symbols 48 19782 0) (miscs 40 57 225) (strings 32 15231 7957) (string-bytes 1 439568) (vectors 16 36974) (vector-slots 8 1147710 127702) (floats 8 159 267) (intervals 56 249 20) (buffers 976 12))