I tried explicitly forcing emacs-internal as the coding-system for load_source_file, but without any noticeable difference. The button preceding the warning messages should be a stop sign emoji. Using the built emacs to view emacs-lisp/warning.el shows the stop sign emoji clearly, but it is apparently mangled in the generated byte-code in warning.elc. I also built a clean emacs from commit 2bdcf0250acecdb0719203ae711aedf5baad1783. When I compared the source elisp files (after building) I see differences in these files: lisp/international/uni-bidi.el lisp/international/uni-brackets.el lisp/international/uni-category.el lisp/international/uni-combining.el lisp/international/uni-comment.el lisp/international/uni-decomposition.el lisp/international/uni-old-name.el lisp/international/uni-name.el lisp/leim/leim-list.el lisp/leim/ja-dic/ja-dic.el lisp/net/tramp-loaddefs.el lisp/textmodes/reftex-loaddefs.el lisp/loaddefs.el lisp/finder-inf.el lisp/cus-load.el In the byte-compiled files, I see differences for: lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio-opt.elc lisp/erc/erc-nicks.elc lisp/erc/erc.elc lisp/eshell/em-cmpl.elc lisp/gnus/gnus-group.elc lisp/gnus/gnus-srvr.elc lisp/gnus/gnus-topic.elc lisp/gnus/gnus-sieve.elc lisp/gnus/gnus-search.elc lisp/gnus/message.elc lisp/gnus/nnfeed.elc lisp/gnus/nnml.elc lisp/gnus/nnimap.elc lisp/gnus/nnagent.elc lisp/gnus/nnmaildir.elc lisp/gnus/gnus-start.elc lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.elc lisp/gnus/nnmairix.elc lisp/gnus/nnselect.elc lisp/net/tramp-cache.elc lisp/net/tramp-cmds.elc lisp/net/tramp-gvfs.elc lisp/net/tramp-sh.elc lisp/obsolete/nnir.elc lisp/org/org-agenda.elc lisp/org/org-lint.elc lisp/org/ox-ascii.elc lisp/org/ox-odt.elc lisp/org/org.elc lisp/progmodes/eglot.elc lisp/progmodes/cc-engine.elc lisp/progmodes/cc-mode.elc lisp/progmodes/js.elc lisp/use-package/use-package-core.elc lisp/loaddefs.elc I'm not clear on why loaddefs.el should be different. That, and eieio-opt.elc being different is unexpected. Lynn