diff --git a/src/core/fonts.js b/src/core/fonts.js
index 1f904cdc2..dd9b27179 100644
--- a/src/core/fonts.js
+++ b/src/core/fonts.js
@@ -2700,6 +2700,7 @@ var Font = (function FontClosure() {
            fontCharCode === 0x7F || // Control char
            fontCharCode === 0xAD || // Soft hyphen
            fontCharCode === 0xA0 || // Non breaking space
+           fontCharCode === 0x25CC || // Dotted circle (combining mark)
            (fontCharCode >= 0x80 && fontCharCode <= 0x9F) || // Control chars
            // Prevent drawing characters in the specials unicode block.
            (fontCharCode >= 0xFFF0 && fontCharCode <= 0xFFFF) ||
diff --git a/test/pdfs/.gitignore b/test/pdfs/.gitignore
index 03c71334a..1289657fa 100644
--- a/test/pdfs/.gitignore
+++ b/test/pdfs/.gitignore
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 !bug847420.pdf
 !bug860632.pdf
 !bug894572.pdf
+!bug1108301.pdf
 !pdfjsbad1586.pdf
 !freeculture.pdf
 !pdfkit_compressed.pdf
diff --git a/test/pdfs/bug1108301.pdf b/test/pdfs/bug1108301.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..70bc58fea
Binary files /dev/null and b/test/pdfs/bug1108301.pdf differ
diff --git a/test/test_manifest.json b/test/test_manifest.json
index 9332d52ed..0eb20955d 100644
--- a/test/test_manifest.json
+++ b/test/test_manifest.json
@@ -1113,6 +1113,13 @@
        "link": false,
        "type": "eq"
     },
+    {  "id": "bug1108301",
+       "file": "pdfs/bug1108301.pdf",
+       "md5": "cc94cc7e5f5e281dfa7e21020dd90cc7",
+       "rounds": 1,
+       "link": false,
+       "type": "eq"
+    },
     {  "id": "issue1466",
       "file": "pdfs/issue1466.pdf",
       "md5": "8a8877432e5bb10cfd50d60488d947bb",