I just got the following assertion failure: bidi.c:329: Emacs fatal error: assertion failed: UNKNOWN_BT <= type && type <= NEUTRAL_ON I wasn't doing anything at the time. I had been away from the computer for a couple days, tried to view an emacs window, and then noticed the assertion failure in the terminal from which I had started emacs under gdb. A full backtrace is attached. I still have the gdb session open. Ken In GNU Emacs 24.3.91.13 (x86_64-unknown-cygwin) of 2014-06-06 on moufang Repository revision: 117213 monnier@iro.umontreal.ca-20140606142539-5h50ienhp3mpz68z Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 Configured using: `configure --with-w32 --enable-checking=yes,glyphs 'CFLAGS=-g3 -O0'' Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Dired by date Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t show-paren-mode: t display-time-mode: t delete-selection-mode: t tooltip-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t temp-buffer-resize-mode: t buffer-read-only: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message cl-macs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils shell pcomplete comint ansi-color ring dired-aux misearch multi-isearch server dired edmacro kmacro solar cal-dst planner-diary cl gv diary-lib diary-loaddefs planner-publish muse-xml planner advice help-fns cal-menu calendar cal-loaddefs sort muse-colors muse-latex muse-html muse-xml-common cus-edit muse-publish muse-project muse-protocols muse-regexps wid-edit cl-loaddefs cl-lib derived muse muse-nested-tags muse-mode gap-mode-autoloads info easymenu muse-autoloads package saveplace paren help-at-pt time delsel cus-start cus-load time-date tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel w32-common-fns disp-table w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind gfilenotify w32 multi-tty emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 163739 4162) (symbols 48 25708 0) (miscs 40 101 217) (strings 32 37923 4888) (string-bytes 1 1024471) (vectors 16 17983) (vector-slots 8 456533 2444) (floats 8 437 54) (intervals 56 577 9) (buffers 960 16))