Re: 23.0.60; GNU Emacs does not handle composed characters

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE>]

Am 26.12.2007 um 18:10 schrieb Andreas Schwab:

> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa> writes:
>
>> When pasting a copy of a filled in text from OmniWeb (a Web  
>> browser coming
>> from the NeXT) into a file buffer in GNU Emacs (mode-line  starts  
>> with
>> -U:), which was launched with -Q, the German umlauts ä,  ö, ü, Ä,  
>> Ö, Ü are
>> stripped off their diaereses and mutate to a, o, u,  A, O, U.  
>> Typing C-u
>> C-x = on such a Marcel Duchamps character leads  to an error  
>> message in
>> echo area:
>>
>> 	Format specifier doesn't match argument type
>
> Did you configure with --enable-font-backend?  I see the same error  
> with
> tibetan characters in the HELLO file, and it goes away when I disable
> the xft support.  The error manifests with internal-char-font  
> returning
> only a single element list for these characters.
>

Hello!

Today I did an update from CVS and configured without font-backend.  
The problem stays the same.


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   Pete

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