Hi, When I tried to view unicode text with emacs23.0.60 snapshot of date 20080801, I see rendering is broken. Combinations of characters are appearing broken. I have comparsion done on Fedora 10 Beta system with gedit application. Following is snapshot image link of both applications when tried to view same file. http://paragn.fedorapeople.org/emacs-23.0.60vsgedit-2.23.92.rendering.png I tried to set Devanagari but no effects on loaded text file to correct broken combinations. Also, output of Hello text from Options->MULE->Multi-lingual Text is broken for Indian languages. This is first time I am reporting bug for emacs. If needed please ask for more input. Sorry If I have not followed any guidelines for reporting bug ro emacs bugs list. In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.0) of 2008-09-18 on localhost Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10500000 configured using `configure '--build=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' 'build_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Text Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: Recent messages: Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/focus-init.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/git-init.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/igrep-init.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/php-mode-init.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/po-mode-init.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/rpm-spec-mode-init.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/rpmdev-init.el (source)...done For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Regards, Parag.