Bug#917034: xterm crashes on certain Unicode characters when font was selected with -fa

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 08:13:53PM +0100, Alexander Meyer wrote:
> * Thomas Dickey <dickey at his.com> [2019-01-04 01:10]:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 05:56:26PM +0100, Alexander Meyer wrote:
> >> * Thomas Dickey <dickey at his.com> [2019-01-02 10:46]:
> >> 
> >>> I verified that the same issue exists in current code, and submitted an
> >>> 
> >>> 	https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/issues/140
> >>> 
> >>> with the attached fix.
> >> 
> >> As a side note, visiting that particular page causes both Chromium and
> >> Firefox to crash in a manner that looks similar to what I reported for
> >> xterm. Chromium crashes completely, in Firefox it's just a tab crash.
> > 
> > perhaps the bug will get more attention then :-)
> 
> Would this warrant to add "affects" tags for firefox and chromium to
> this bug? Not sure about the Debian policy here. In this case, the
> Subject line should probably be changed to something more meaningful.

agreed - the subject line is too specific.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey at invisible-island.net>
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