[Bug: 21.4.19] Binary characters in buffer causes emacs to crash

[Hoylen Sue]

Aidan,

Thank you for the reply.

Yes, it does seem to only occur on the Microsoft Windows port of XEmacs.

I'll look forward to the release of XEmacs 21.5.

Thank you for your hard work.

Hoylen




>  Hoylen Sue: 
>  > XEmacs crashes when trying to view a buffer that contains some strange
>  > binary (i.e. non-roman) characters in it.
>
> This is a symptom of the incomplete multilingual support on Microsoft
> Windows in 21.4. 21.4 doesn't have the Unicode support necessary for
> multilingual display on that platform; try 21.5 if using a beta version is
> an option for you. 
>
>  > It crashes and prints out the following message:
>  > 
>  > Fatal error: assertion failed, file /usr/src/xemacs-21.4.19/src/redisplay-msw.c, line 563, runs[i].dimension == 1
>  > Aborted (core dumped)
>  > 
>  > 
>  > I first saw this bug when I had received some SPAM email containing
>  > Chinese or Japanese characters in it, and was reading the mail using
>  > Gnus.  It would cause Xemacs to crash when trying to display the
>  > article summary buffer in Gnus (which I assume was trying to display
>  > the Subject line).
>
> -- 
> Santa Maradona, priez pour moi!

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