Subject: Re: bug#31758: 26.1; Emacs crashes trying to display CROSS MARK

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 17:36:50 +0200

Alex Branham <[email-masked]> writes:

> From emacs -Q:
>
> C-x 8 RET CROSS MARK RET
>
> crashes Emacs every time. Emacs also crashes when trying to display
> CROSS MARK anywhere (mu4e uses this when mu4e-use-fancy-chars is
> non-nil).
>
> Let me know what other information I can provide
>

My crystal ball says that 'XFT_DEBUG=16 emacs' will say something
about loading an emoji font just before it crashes. I think youʼre the
third this week.

Is it possible for you to try the latest version of the emacs-26
branch? This should be fixed there.

Regards

Robert