On 2007-05-25, michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> wrote: > 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? I've run into that before. In my case the source of the problem was xorg, rather than Emacs. It was a long time ago now, and I can't remember the specifics, but something about how xorg was looking for fonts was screwed up. Tyler