Re: 23.0.60; GNU Emacs does not handle composed characters

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 26.12.2007 um 18:10 schrieb Andreas Schwab:

> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa> writes:
>
> > When pasting a copy of a filled in text from OmniWeb (a Web  
> > browser coming
> > from the NeXT) into a file buffer in GNU Emacs (mode-line  starts  
> > with
> > -U:), which was launched with -Q, the German umlauts ä,  ö, ü, Ä,  
> > Ö, Ü are
> > stripped off their diaereses and mutate to a, o, u,  A, O, U.  
> > Typing C-u
> > C-x = on such a Marcel Duchamps character leads  to an error  
> > message in
> > echo area:
> >
> >         Format specifier doesn't match argument type
>
> Did you configure with --enable-font-backend?  I see the same error  
> with
> tibetan characters in the HELLO file, and it goes away when I disable
> the xft support.  The error manifests with internal-char-font  
> returning
> only a single element list for these characters.

Hello!

Today I did an update from CVS and configured without font-backend.  
The problem stays the same.


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  Pete

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