From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9172: 24.0.50; describe-char fails for combining character when on xterm Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:21:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20014.25187.487429.263606@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311672542 24342 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2011 09:29:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:29:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9172@debbugs.gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 26 11:28:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qldwe-0004eC-ND for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:28:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36787 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qldwe-0007kK-7a for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:28:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qldwb-0007kF-TR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:28:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qldwb-0001fQ-5Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:28:53 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:42286) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qldpz-0000YR-8d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:22:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qldpy-0004in-KV; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:22:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:22:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9172 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9172-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9172.131167210718125 (code B ref 9172); Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:22:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9172) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Jul 2011 09:21:47 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qldpi-0004iG-SG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:21:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qldph-0004i2-7O for 9172@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:21:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qldpc-0003qU-1e; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:21:40 -0400 In-reply-to: <20014.25187.487429.263606@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (message from Ulrich Mueller on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:44:51 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:22:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:49612 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:44:51 +0200 > From: Ulrich Mueller > > With Emacs started on an xterm, function describe-char fails when a > combining character is at point. > > Steps to reproduce: > $ emacs -Q -nw > a C-x 8 RET combining diaeresis RET C-b C-u C-x = > > Actual result: > Error message "Wrong type argument: sequencep, 38" FWIW, I cannot reproduce this (also on an x86_64 GNU/Linux system), neither in Emacs 23 nor with today's trunk. In fact, internal-char-font doesn't even get called here with this recipe. I guess this has something to do with local system differences, and perhaps with configure-time options. Hopefully, the backtrace will allow to solve this nonetheless.