bug#2219: 23.0.90; DingBats Font Making text unreadable

[Leo]

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Using: GNU Emacs 23.0.90.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2009-02-02 on
BREPNB

Somehow the funny DictBats font was used and it makes readable test
unreadable. Is there a temporary fix for this bug?

        character: h (104, #o150, #x68)
preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
       code point: 0x68
           syntax: w    which means: word
         category: a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman
      buffer code: #x68
        file code: #x68 (encoded by coding system undecided-dos)
          display: by this font (glyph code)
    uniscribe:-outline-DictBats-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
    (#x4B)

Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: LATIN SMALL LETTER H
  general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)

There are text properties here:
  face                 (font-latex-verbatim-face font-latex-sedate-face)
  fontified            t

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In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
 of 2008-12-15 on smaug
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/tmp/emacs''

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_GB.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Group

Minor modes in effect:
  gnus-topic-mode: t
  gnus-undo-mode: t
  dired-omit-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  icomplete-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  xterm-mouse-mode: t
  delete-selection-mode: t
  global-auto-revert-mode: t
  minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode: t
  which-function-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  rcirc-track-minor-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-k ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A 
ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC 
O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A 
ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC 
O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O B ESC O B 
ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC 
O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B 
ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC 
O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B C-c C-c q b e c 
a u s e SPC o f SPC t h e SPC D i c t B a t s SPC f 
o n t s , SPC t e x t SPC i n DEL DEL i n SPC DEL DEL 
DEL i s SPC s h o w i n g SPC f u n n y SPC c h a r 
a c t e r s RET C-x g n n n RET RET q n p RET RET q 
L C-r E DEL e m a c s . d e v e l C-s C-s C-s RET ESC 
g ESC O A RET q ESC O A ESC O A ESC x r e p o r TAB 
RET

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