Could you be more specific about those characters in Junicode font? Zodiac signs (Unicode 2648 through 2653, hexadecimal), for example, show up just fine in Sans, but not in Junicode. Other special characters, such as a die face six (Unicode 2685) disappear entirely instead of displaying a blank ch...

I just started using Inkscape on a new system, and so far I've run into two issues that both have to do with fonts. I don't know if they might be related or not. For a while now, I had been using Inkscape (I think it was 0.48) on a laptop running Ubuntu (I think I was using 10.4). Recently, however,...