diff -ru fontforge-20061220/Unicode/ustring.c fontforge-20061220.new/Unicode/ustring.c
--- fontforge-20061220/Unicode/ustring.c	2006-03-13 00:16:56.000000000 +0100
+++ fontforge-20061220.new/Unicode/ustring.c	2007-02-06 17:00:57.000000000 +0100
@@ -683,6 +683,7 @@
 
     len = strlen(utf8buf);
     lbuf = galloc(len+1);
+    pt = lbuf;
     for ( upt=utf8buf; (ch=utf8_ildb(&upt))!='\0'; )
 	if ( ch>=0xff )
 	    *pt++ = '?';