I'm having a bizarre problem in 0.44 with text objects containing characters from the PUA -- specifically, Klingon glyphs -- and I thought I'd check here to make sure I'm not doing anything stupid before submitting a bug report.
I have a sequence of Klingon characters, in the range f8d0 to f8ff, and they aren't displaying. The font I'm using (clearlyU; it is in Debian) has glyphs for these characters. I know this because they show up in Vim with guifont set appropriately, and also in gucharmap. I know that Inkscape has the right characters in the text object, because when I look at the 'text' tab of the 'text and font' dialogue box, it shows the right numbers. I know the object should be visible, because when I type normal characters in they show up.
Despite all this, the Klingon characters don't show up in the font preview area in the 'text and font' dialogue box, nor in the document itself.
Any hints? Has this been seen before? If it is a bug, what information (beyond the usual) would you like to see on the report?