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

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Hi Jonas,

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 09:53:11AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Hi Chiraag,
> 
> Quoting Chiraag Nataraj (2018-02-12 02:00:06)
> > 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.
> 
> Interesting!  I will make sure to pass this upstream to the developers 
> of Noto.

Great, thanks!

> 
> Please also file a separate bugreport against emacs, as I am sure they 
> would love to know about the crashing bug on their side (and I don't use 
> emacs myself so cannot sensibly report that on my own).
>

Yup, I'll file a report with them as well.

> 
>  - Jonas
> 
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- Chiraag

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