Ar an ceathrú lá déag de mí Eanair, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: For the left double quote, I get a horizontal bar (not the Han character for 1, more like a logical not sign at a point size too small to see the vertical), and this to stdout; checking if Courier handles Japanese Unexpected type of lang value (FcTypeLangSet) confirming charset for font instance Sazanami Mincho FcNameParse'ed name is Sazanami Mincho FcConfigSubstitute'ed name is Sazanami Mincho:rgba=1 FcDefaultSubstitute'ed name is Sazanami Mincho-12:slant=0:weight=100:width=100:pixelsize=12.5:hintstyle=3:hinting=True:verticallayout=False:autohint=False:globaladvance=True:dpi=75:rgba=1:scale=1:fontversion=2147483647 checking if Sazanami Mincho handles Japanese Unexpected type of lang value (FcTypeLangSet) and then this to the " *Message-Log*" buffer: Notice: Unable to instantiate font for charset japanese-jisx0208, face default For the right single quote, it displays fine, and I get this to stdout FcNameParse'ed name is FcConfigSubstitute'ed name is :rgba=1 FcDefaultSubstitute'ed name is -12:slant=0:weight=100:width=100:pixelsize=12.5:hintstyle=3:hinting=True:verticallayout=False:autohint=False:globaladvance=True:dpi=75:rgba=1:scale=1:fontversion=2147483647 Xft font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1 supports en attempting to initialize font spec Caslon-12:style=Roman:slant=0:weight=100:width=100:pixelsize=12.5:foundry=unknown:hintstyle=3:hinting=True:verticallayout=False:autohint=False:globaladvance=True:index=0:outline=True:scalable=True:dpi=75:rgba=1:scale=1:fontversion=65536 initialized Xft font Caslon-12:style=Roman:slant=0:weight=100:width=100:pixelsize=12.5:foundry=unknown:hintstyle=3:hinting=True:verticallayout=False:autohint=False:globaladvance=True:index=0:outline=True:scalable=True:dpi=75:rgba=1:scale=1:fontversion=65536 width of font Caslon-12:style=Roman:slant=0:weight=100:width=100:pixelsize=12.5:foundry=unknown:hintstyle=3:hinting=True:verticallayout=False:autohint=False:globaladvance=True:index=0:outline=True:scalable=True:dpi=75:rgba=1:scale=1:fontversion=65536 is 31, larger than its height 19 initialized Xft font Caslon-12:style=Roman:slant=0:weight=100:width=100:pixelsize=12.5:foundry=unknown:hintstyle=3:hinting=True:verticallayout=False:autohint=False:globaladvance=True:index=0:outline=True:scalable=True:dpi=75:rgba=1:scale=1:fontversion=65536 and this to the messages buffer: Warning: ("unknown charset" #<charset greek-iso8859-7 "ISO8859-7" "ISO8859-7 (Greek)" "ISO8859-7 (Greek)" 96 l2r cols=1 g1 final='F' reg=iso8859-7 0x1b6>) If the info isn’t in the manuals--ce qui se peut bien--fcfreetype.c:567 does indicate they’re in UTF-8. -- “Ah come on now Ted, a Volkswagen with a mind of its own, driving all over the place and going mad, if that’s not scary I don’t know what is.”