> I used emacs -Q on Fedora 23, displaying on Ubuntu 15.10. -Q should bypass .Xdefaults. I have no idea what "PfEd" means.
In that case, I also get
xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-13-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#xAC)
no "PfEd".
position: 146 of 146 (99%), column: 0
character: ê (displayed as ê) (codepoint 234, #o352, #xea)
preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
code point in charset: 0xEA
script: latin
syntax: w which means: word
category: .:Base, L:Left-to-right (strong), c:Chinese, j:Japanese, l:Latin, v:Viet
to input: type "C-x 8 RET ea" or "C-x 8 RET LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX"
buffer code: #xC3 #xAA
file code: #xC3 #xAA (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
display: by this font (glyph code)
xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-13-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#xAC)
Character code properties: customize what to show
name: LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
old-name: LATIN SMALL LETTER E CIRCUMFLEX
general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)
decomposition: (101 770) ('e' '̂')
There are text properties here:
fontified nil
Here is my build info if that helps:
Emacs version: GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.23)
of 2016-01-27, built using commit b88e9cded7ae3756e3a2ec4a23e8df352a0239f9.
./configure options:
--prefix=/home/kmodi/usr_local/apps/6/emacs/emacs-25 'CPPFLAGS=-fgnu89-inline -I/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include' 'CFLAGS=-ggdb3 -O0' 'CXXFLAGS=-ggdb3 -O0' 'LDFLAGS=-L/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib -L/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib64 -ggdb3'
Features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK2 X11