GNU bug report logs - #9172
24.0.50; describe-char fails for combining character when on xterm

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>

Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 9172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
Cc: 9172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9172: 24.0.50;
	describe-char fails for combining character when on xterm
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:21:40 -0400

> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:44:51 +0200
> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
> 
> With Emacs started on an xterm, function describe-char fails when a
> combining character is at point.
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> $ emacs -Q -nw
> a C-x 8 RET combining diaeresis RET C-b C-u C-x =
> 
> Actual result:
> Error message "Wrong type argument: sequencep, 38"

FWIW, I cannot reproduce this (also on an x86_64 GNU/Linux system),
neither in Emacs 23 nor with today's trunk.  In fact,
internal-char-font doesn't even get called here with this recipe.  I
guess this has something to do with local system differences, and
perhaps with configure-time options.

Hopefully, the backtrace will allow to solve this nonetheless.
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