[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#890211: fonts-noto-hinted: Certain font characters crash Emacs 25

[Chiraag Nataraj]

Package: fonts-noto-hinted
Version: 20171026-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I went to open mpc in Emacs, and my artists (and song titles) are in multiple languages, including Kannada (the font for which I found this problem). A very specific character (ಕು) caused Emacs to crash. This was reproducible multiple times using both the GTK+ and Lucid builds of Emacs 25.

I uninstalled the package, which prevented the crash (that is, other fonts - e.g. the ones provided by fonts-knda - do not have this problem and do not cause Emacs to crash).

I can provide more information if needed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled