I meant to come back and comment on this. Its due to the font paths in edgy being different from those in dapper. In dapper the fonts are in /usr/share/X11/fonts, while the fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/ (I believe, I am away from my edgy machine). Changing all the font paths and restarting X is good enough to get emacs back. So this should be assigned to xserver-xorg.
Oh, and the reason emacs is affected and the rest of gnome isn't is because gnome uses xft. I can't wait for emacs 22 with xft support. -- Messed up fonts in emacs https://launchpad.net/bugs/53038 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
