diff --git a/src/cmd/fontsrv/osx.c b/src/cmd/fontsrv/osx.c
index 2c88fd55..d1a31837 100644
--- a/src/cmd/fontsrv/osx.c
+++ b/src/cmd/fontsrv/osx.c
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ mapUnicode(int i)
 	case '`':
 		return 0x2018;
 	}
+	if(0xd800 <= i && i < 0xe0000) // surrogate pairs, will crash OS X libraries!
+		return 0xfffd;
 	return i;
 }