From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; GNU Emacs does not handle composed characters
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:10:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jefxxp1ixg.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ED11F1E7-697B-4B6C-8906-0223E4F4017D@Freenet.DE> (Peter Dyballa's message of "Wed\, 26 Dec 2007 17\:36\:25 +0100")
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE> 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.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-26 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-26 16:36 23.0.60; GNU Emacs does not handle composed characters Peter Dyballa
2007-12-26 17:10 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2007-12-26 18:53 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-12-30 15:04 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-12-30 21:50 ` James Cloos
2008-01-08 6:29 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-01-08 15:08 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-01-09 1:56 ` Kenichi Handa
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