When editing an org-mode document, I saw a crash due to this assertion error: character.h:379: Emacs fatal error: assertion failed: 0xC0 <= c The document contains utf-8 characters, but nothing more fancy than basic Swedish characters (åäö) as far as I know. I'm out of my depth when it comes to debugging this, but I do have the gdb session still running if you need more information. I'm using an Emacs recently built from master, see below for the exact details.