> If I switch to Liberation Mono it works. This is a pretty serious > regression, since I used to be able to use whatever font I wanted > without issue.
It is a problem related to the switch to Xft. It impossible a font has all the unicode glyphs, so if the font fails in a glyph you have a problem. It is not clear for us how other terminals fix this problem, but maybe we should add this issue to the TODO list.