Subject: bug#17144: 24.3; Some unicode characters show in many lines

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 20:44:53 +0300

> From: Rustom Mody <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 22:15:49 +0530
> 
> Attached is a is a 3-line text file containing some 'exotic' unicode
> characters.
> And a screenshot of emacs reading that file started with emacs -Q
> [vi shows it ok]
> 
> Note that although its 3 lines it looks like many more

Not on my system.  Here they look normal.

It could be a matter of the font used for these characters; I suggest
to try other fonts (S-mouse-1 should show a dialog where you can
select a different font).