emacs bugs post upgrade to etch

[michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352811
Anybody managed to get emacs to give sensible fonts as opposed to chars
like empty boxes? My setup is
michael@ratty:~$ dpkg -l|grep -i emacs;locale -a;set |grep -e LANG -e LC
ii  emacs                            21.4a+1-3
The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
rc  emacs-goodies-el                 26.9-1
Miscellaneous add-ons for Emacs
ii  emacs21                          21.4a+1-3
The GNU Emacs editor
ii  emacs21-bin-common               21.4a+1-3
The GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture dependent files
ii  emacs21-common                   21.4a+1-3
The GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture independent infrastr
ii  emacs21-el                       21.4a+1-3
GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files
ii  emacsen-common                   1.4.17
Common facilities for all emacsen
C
en_GB
en_GB.iso88591
en_GB.iso885915
en_GB.utf8
POSIX
LANG=en_GB
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_US:en_GB:en
MAILCHECK=60