I confirm, I got the same problem in ERC. Here's the backtrace: (gdb) bt #0 0x00000000005cabf6 in find_automatic_composition (pos=13, limit=13, start=0x7fffffffdd58, end=0x7fffffffdd60, gstring=0x7fffffffdd68, string=11901442) at composite.c:1607 #1 0x00000000005cf7af in composition_adjust_point (last_pt=13, new_pt=13) at composite.c:1709 #2 0x000000000050f19b in command_loop_1 () at keyboard.c:1673 #3 0x0000000000572743 in internal_condition_case (bfun=0x50e0c0 , handlers=11953826, hfun=0x502ec0 ) at eval.c:1507 #4 0x000000000050144e in command_loop_2 (ignore=) at keyboard.c:1156 #5 0x0000000000572618 in internal_catch (tag=12164544, func=0x501430 , arg=11901442) at eval.c:1261 #6 0x000000000050299f in command_loop () at keyboard.c:1135 #7 recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:756 #8 0x0000000000502cd7 in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:820 #9 0x000000000041697d in main (argc=1, argv=) at emacs.c:1686 -- Julien Danjou ❱ http://julien.danjou.info