Subject: bug#38788: 27.0.50; Emacs crashes with Google Noto Emoji Color Fonts installed

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 22:16:51 +0100

>>>>> On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:05:03 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> said:

    >> From: Francis Meetze <[email-masked]>
    >> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 19:20:33 -0800
    >> 
    >> To reproduce install the Google Noto Emoji Color font library.
    >> 
    >> dnf install google-noto-emoji-color-fonts
    >> 
    >> apt-get install fonts-noto-color-emoji
    >> 
    >> Including a certain symbol from the Google Noto Emoji color font library will crash Emacs with "Fatal error 6: Aborted".
    >> 
    >> see reference: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1076735/emacs-crashes-on-pasting-the-unicode-symbol
    >> 
    >> I was just checking my email in Gnus when this symbol crashed Emacs
    >> in X11.  I didn't have any issues in terminal mode as the symbol
    >> didn't try to render.
    >> 
    >> Uninstalling the font library prevents the error.

    Eli> Sounds like another duplicate of bug#38569 and its ilk.

    Eli> We have a patch in the works, so hopefully Emacs 27 will avoid bumping
    Eli> into this XFT problem.

Should be fixed in emacs-27.

Robert