Subject: bug#41486: 26.3; Emacs crashes when loading small ConText file using Devanagari script

From: Saša Janiška <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 18:17:17 +0200

Eli Zaretskii writes:

>> From: Saša Janiška <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 14:03:14 +0200
>> 
>> Loading of tiny ConTeXt file containing Sanskrit Devangari characters
>> crashes Emacs and it's 100% reproducible here.
>> 
>> I'm inncluding t.tex file in the attachment.
>

> Thanks.  I suspect the cause of this is the shaping library your build
> is using.  Emacs 27 built with HarfBuzz doesn't crash while displaying
> this file, and neither does Emacs 26 on MS-Windows that uses the
> Uniscribe as its shaping engine.

You're correct...

> Could you please try the latest pretest of Emacs 27 with HarfBuzz?

Tried with 27.0.91 and it works OK.

Btw, how far is 27.x release?

Sincerely,
Saša

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