Emacs crashes when displaying the Euro character

[Milan Zamazal]

When Emacs tries to display the Euro character, e.g. when Euro is typed
in or when opening a file containing it and scrolling it to make the
character visible, it crashes with the following message:

  X protocol error: BadName (named color or font does not exist) on protocol 
request 77

How to reproduce the bug:

- Start Emacs in X.

- Evaluate the following code with `C-x C-e':

  (global-set-key "\M-e" [3876])

- Press M-e.  Emacs should crash with the message above.

This happens only in CVS Emacs; Emacs 21.4 can display the Euro
character fine.  I can reproduce the bug in at least Emacs 2006-06-02
and 2006-08-23.

I'm sure I was able to use the Euro character in Emacs some time ago, so
perhaps reproducing the bug requires certain X environment.  I'm also
sure I've experienced unreproducible Emacs crashes with the given error
message for at least several months, not related to displaying the Euro
character.


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2006-08-23 on blackbird
X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70000000
configured using `configure '--prefix=/usr/local/stow/emacs-cvs' 
'--with-toolkit=lucid''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: cs_CZ.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Group

Minor modes in effect:
  gnus-topic-mode: t
  gnus-undo-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  auto-image-file-mode: t
  jabber-activity-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  msb-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  partial-completion-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  temp-buffer-resize-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t