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#9496
24.0.50; Segfault on TAB-only composition
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Reported by: Johan Bockgård <bojohan <at> gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:27:01 UTC
Severity: important
Merged with 9775
Found in versions 24.0.50, 24.0.90
Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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> Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:43:56 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: 9496 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On 02/04/2012 12:14 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > It would be a much better solution if char_width would limit the
> > result to the same sane limit we have in all the related functions and
> > macros, i.e. to 1000.
>
> OK, that's doable, but if done in isolation it would introduce other
> bugs, no? If char-width returns a value that's arbitrarily ceilinged
> at 1000, but actual characters can be wider than 1000 columns,
> code that uses char-width to count columns will be buggy.
How can an actual character (not its display-table replacement) be
wider than that?
> We could address this by changing the code that renders characters,
> so that the code limits them to at most 1000 columns on the display.
That was my intent, yes.
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