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From: "Saša Janiška" <sjaniska@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 41486@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41486: 26.3; Emacs crashes when loading small ConText file using Devanagari script
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 18:17:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imgmzkvm.fsf@atmarama.ddns.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h7w6zltg.fsf@gnu.org>


Eli Zaretskii writes:

>> From: Saša Janiška <sjaniska@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 14:03:14 +0200
>> 
>> Loading of tiny ConTeXt file containing Sanskrit Devangari characters
>> crashes Emacs and it's 100% reproducible here.
>> 
>> I'm inncluding t.tex file in the attachment.
>

> Thanks.  I suspect the cause of this is the shaping library your build
> is using.  Emacs 27 built with HarfBuzz doesn't crash while displaying
> this file, and neither does Emacs 26 on MS-Windows that uses the
> Uniscribe as its shaping engine.

You're correct...

> Could you please try the latest pretest of Emacs 27 with HarfBuzz?

Tried with 27.0.91 and it works OK.

Btw, how far is 27.x release?


Sincerely,
Saša

-- 
There is no possibility of one's becoming a yogī, O Arjuna,
if one eats too much or eats too little, sleeps too much
or does not sleep enough.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-23 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-23 12:03 bug#41486: 26.3; Emacs crashes when loading small ConText file using Devanagari script Saša Janiška
2020-05-23 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 16:17   ` Saša Janiška [this message]
2020-05-23 16:48     ` Eli Zaretskii

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