Subject: bug#40733: 28.0.50; Emacs locks up on paste (yank) of unicode characters

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 09:35:42 +0200

>>>>> On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 15:35:23 -0400, James Cloos <[email-masked]> said:

>>>>> "RP" == Robert Pluim <[email-masked]> writes:
    RP> Footnotes:
    RP> [1]  Although you can still build it with Xft if you want, but I
    RP> wouldnʼt recommend that, since it will crash once you start
    RP> processing Emojis and other 'interesting' Unicode characters.

    James> note that master will also crash when using cr+hb on some code points.

    James> such as some private use characters.

Examples? Eli fixed one such case with Bug#39892, but if there are
more we should fix them (please open a separate bug report for that).

Robert