On Wed 2019-01-02 19:40:43 -0600, Rob Browning wrote: > Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> writes: > >> Control: found 916012 1:26.1+1-2 >> >> running emacs-gtk 26.1 from unstable, I still get crashes on U+2728 >> SPARKLES . I'm also seeing a crash when trying to render U+26C4 SNOWMAN >> WITHOUT SNOW. > > So I just hit a random crash when trying to look at my INBOX in > notmuch. Searching for the error turned up this: > > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/1076735/emacs-crashes-on-pasting-the-unicode-symbol > > And indeed, purging fonts-noto-color-emoji "fixed" the problem. I > wonder if it's at all related...
Indeed, when i "apt purge fonts-noto-color-emoji" i also stop having a
crash with emacs-gtk when rendering certain high-plane Unicode
characters (they render as unintelligible boxes instead, of course, but
that's better than crashing i guess. thanks for finding that workaround!
so, how do we fix it?
--dkg
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