I tested ida just now and I do not see any text being overwritten as you show in your screenshot (I have msttcorefonts) but what I do see is ASCII DC2 and DC3 chars inserted into some of the disassembly comments which show up as arrows pointing up and down respectively. Perhaps these control chars are doing naughty things when using the wine font substitutes? Are they supposed to be there as a normal IDA behavior? I have not used this program before so I have no idea. Bill