From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.60; peculiar error: "invalid font property", (:spacing . iso8859) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:02:58 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87iqzjps95.fsf@lukas.physics.niu.edu> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206007457 24615 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2008 10:04:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:04:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Roland Winkler To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 20 11:04:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JcHdZ-0004C6-5B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:04:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcHcy-0002qS-Ur for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:04:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcHa7-00022N-8t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:01:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcHa5-00021g-5v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:01:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcHa4-00021b-UC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:01:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcHa4-0002DV-NK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:01:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mx10.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JcHa4-0000yW-AL for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:01:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcHa1-0002Cn-Ax for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:01:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcHa0-0002C5-Sj for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:01:01 -0400 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m2KA0uvv012441; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:00:56 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from localhost (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143EF1C62F; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:00:56 +0100 (CET) X-Face: 3Phac&+dw=IZHjhua]bp}LH<*p{qzj8u+, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:18:45 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.92 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-INFN-TO-Metrics: poseidon 1233; Body=3 Fuz1=3 Fuz2=3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:93035 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:21625 Archived-At: On Wed, Mar 19 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> peculiar error: "invalid font property", (:spacing . iso8859) > > Google will give you the appended answer [...] Shouldn't Emacs handle it more gracefully? A this error has been in at least one release of openSUSE, many people will suffer from this problem and the error message is hard to understand. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/