Re: 23.0.60; peculiar error: "invalid font property", (:spacing . iso8859)

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <jwv7ifxqzko.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>>>> 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.

> > How about this change?
[...]
> That'd be much better, yes.  Maybe even mention "in X resources".

Ok.  I've just committed the attached change.

---
Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp

Index: fontset.el
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/international/fontset.el,v
retrieving revision 1.80
retrieving revision 1.81
diff -c -r1.80 -r1.81
*** fontset.el	1 Apr 2008 14:09:58 -0000	1.80
--- fontset.el	3 Apr 2008 04:06:55 -0000	1.81
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*** 944,950 ****
  	fontset-spec)
      (while (setq fontset-spec (x-get-resource (format "fontset-%d" idx)
  					      (format "Fontset-%d" idx)))
!       (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec fontset-spec t 'noerror)
        (setq idx (1+ idx)))))
  
  ;;
--- 944,952 ----
  	fontset-spec)
      (while (setq fontset-spec (x-get-resource (format "fontset-%d" idx)
  					      (format "Fontset-%d" idx)))
!       (condition-case nil
! 	  (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec fontset-spec t 'noerror)
! 	(error (message "Fontset-%d: invalid specification in X resource" idx)))
        (setq idx (1+ idx)))))
  
  ;;