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

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

How about this change?

*** fontset.el.~1.79.~  2008-02-25 10:39:54.000000000 +0900
--- fontset.el  2008-03-20 21:25:44.000000000 +0900
***************
*** 938,944 ****
        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)))))
  
  ;;
--- 938,946 ----
        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" idx)))
        (setq idx (1+ idx)))))
  
  ;;

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Kenichi Handa
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