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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Vasudev Kamath (2018-02-17 14:10:20)
> Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> > 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).
> 
> This is not related to fonts I assume. I had long ago filed bug report
> with emacs24 for this ¹. But sadly it got closed as emacs24 went out of
> archive (And I did not notice that).
> 
> Jonas I think we can safely re-assign this bug to emacs25. In my case
> crash was mostly Unicode character (Kannada) specific.
> 
> 
> ¹ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826299

Please do reassign: Seems that you (unsurprisingly) are more familiar 
with Kannada than me :-)

 - Jonas

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