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27.1; Emacs crash in font handling with font-backend ns

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From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 44850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Pieter van Oostrum <pieter-l <at> vanoostrum.org>, pieter <at> vanoostrum.org
Subject: bug#44850: 27.1; Emacs crash in font handling with font-backend ns
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:55:19 +0000

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 09:16:13AM +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >>     format=0x10051ecc5 "%s  —  (%d x %d)", format_end=0x0, ap=0x7ffeefbf62b0) at doprnt.c:493
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I believe this is a known problem.
> 
> Ah, this is the issue with non-ASCII characters in the format string
> when used in the frame titles?
> 
> I thought that had been fixed...  but I can't find the bug report for it
> now.  It's odd that Emacs 28 doesn't segfault for me on Macos, then.
> (Alan added to the Cc's.)

It's bug#44349. It doesn't look like that bug report went anywhere.

We could easily replace that character, but I think it came along with
the NS port, so it's strange how it's only become an issue now.

-- 
Alan Third

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