Thanks for the tips. It was indeed cruft from my .emacs
I removed the two most likeley candidates and it now works. They were: - A UTF-8 locale setting - A font face setting to courier Cheers, Burnce -- [feisty] Xemacs shows curly braces '{}' as square braces '[]' https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94738 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs