GNU bug report logs - #30874
Displaying char \x274C with Dejavu Sans Mono gives "X protocol error: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error) on protocol request 138"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jan Synacek <jsynacek <at> redhat.com>

Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:26:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: fixed

Merged with 30045, 31547, 31758, 31801, 31936

Found in versions 26.1, 27.0.50, 25.3

Fixed in version 26.2

Done: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 30874 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>, jsynacek <at> redhat.com
Subject: bug#30874: 27.0.50; Emacs crashes
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 01:10:27 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Does harfbuzz require Cairo?  If it does, that's unfortunate, because
> the Cairo rendering option currently has a few known and annoying
> redisplay bugs, which no one seems to be willing/capable of fixing.

Jan mentioned this in the initial addition of cairo:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00795.html

   [...] it is just a step to keep up with the times, i.e. server side
   (as in X11 server) rendering is going away as it seems. So Emacs must
   at some point develop client side (cairo) rendering.
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