On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:04:37PM -0600, billstei wrote: > I tested ida just now and I do not see any text being overwritten as you show in your screenshot (I have msttcorefonts) well, I didn't have these before, > 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? No, they are not, at least not that I would be aware of. Now I have installed courie32.exe and a first test shows everything being in order. No control characters disturbing. Well, that font thingie did it. Many thanks to all for your rapid help. Bye, bye Juergen