Hitting RET on that kills Emacs. Running under gdb, I get this backtrace: #0 terminate_due_to_signal (sig=sig@entry=6, backtrace_limit=backtrace_limit@entry=40) at emacs.c:378 #1 0x00005555555984fe in emacs_abort () at sysdep.c:2280 #2 0x0000555555596a9a in multibyte_chars_in_text (ptr=, ptr@entry=0x5555565f0870 "f\363o", nbytes=nbytes@entry=3) at character.c:447 #3 0x00005555555d412b in display_mode_element (it=, depth=, field_width=, precision=, elt=, props=, risky=) at xdisp.c:25644 #4 0x00005555555d54b0 in display_mode_element (it=0x7fffffffb840, depth=2, field_width=-1, precision=-1, elt=, props=XIL(0), risky=) at lisp.h:1423 #5 0x00005555555d63c2 in gui_consider_frame_title (frame=XIL(0x555555f64c45)) at lisp.h:1007 #6 0x00005555555e15d9 in prepare_menu_bars () at xdisp.c:12666 #7 redisplay_internal () at xdisp.c:15514 #8 0x000055555568baeb in read_char (commandflag=1, map=XIL(0x5555563fb2b3), prev_event=XIL(0), used_mouse_menu=0x7fffffffe52b, end_time=0x0) at keyboard.c:2493 #9 0x000055555568e9c4 in read_key_sequence (keybuf=, prompt=XIL(0), dont_downcase_last=, can_return_switch_frame=true, fix_current_buffer=true, prevent_redisplay=) at keyboard.c:9547 #10 0x000055555569034c in command_loop_1 () at lisp.h:1007 #11 0x00005555556fbf17 in internal_condition_case (bfun=bfun@entry=0x555555690170 , handlers=handlers@entry=XIL(0x90), hfun=hfun@entry=0x555555686ad0 ) at eval.c:1356 #12 0x0000555555681504 in command_loop_2 (ignore=ignore@entry=XIL(0)) at lisp.h:1007 #13 0x00005555556fbe71 in internal_catch (tag=tag@entry=XIL(0xd200), func=func@entry=0x5555556814e0 , arg=arg@entry=XIL(0)) at eval.c:1117 #14 0x00005555556814ab in command_loop () at lisp.h:1007 #15 0x00005555556866e6 in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:714 #16 0x0000555555686a12 in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:786 #17 0x000055555559fb54 in main (argc=2, argv=) at emacs.c:2047 This is with [larsi@stories ~]$ echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 4, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.22, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-09-14 built on stories Repository revision: e408f2fab24ea81f74d9b84dc83ee67d562846dc Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12008000 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no