Re: XFT crash in Ubuntu 14

Stephen> Raymond Toy writes: Stephen> Where is this happening in actual use? If it's your own code, you can Stephen> work around with fc-name-parse-harder. If it's in XEmacs, we probably Stephen> should make that change there. It's in my own code. (I got this from some other post here on how to set up fonts with xft.) Unfortunately, changing the test to (let ((face 'default) (default-font "Courier-10:lang=en")) (set-specifier (face-font face) (cons '(x) (fc-name-unparse (fc-font-match (selected-device) (fc-name-parse-harder default-font)))))) Still crashes because fc-name-unparse apparently still leaves the charset stuff. But using (let ((face 'default) (default-font "Courier-10:lang=en")) (set-specifier (face-font face) (cons '(x) (fc-name-parse-harder (fc-name-unparse (fc-font-match (selected-device) (fc-name-parse default-font))))))) doesn't crash, but I now get an error Invalid argument: Invalid specifier locale, x It's been so long since I worked with specifiers that I don't remember how to do that anymore. Stephen> Specifically, it's known and there is code in lisp/fontconfig.el to Stephen> deal with this, see defvar fc-name-parse-known-problem-attributes and Stephen> defun fc-name-parse-harder. I don't understand the crash, as there is Stephen> also code in src/font-mgr.c:Ffc_name_parse to detect NULL returns and Stephen> signal. I wonder if your XEmacs is somehow out of date? I believe Stephen> these changes were installed 2013-09-15 or soon after (ChangeLog date Stephen> is 2013-09-10). Yes, I saw Jerry's comments about fc-name-parse-harder. The latest tests were done with a recent mercurial version, but I did an hg pull -u yesterday and rebuilt, just to be sure. I'll poke around a bit more. -- Ray _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta