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

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an naoú lá is fiche de mí Bealtaine, scríobh 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).

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