On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 9:31 AM, Hiltjo Posthuma <hil...@codemadness.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 08:34:53AM +0800, Kai Hendry wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, at 11:41 PM, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: >> > It is not a fix, it will just ignore the error. >> >> Shouldn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle apply? >> > > Robustness is not ignoring errors. It should not ignore errors. > > If anything: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-fast > >> Draconian error handling was the hallmark of XML. >> >> > The emoji crash is a bug in Xft. >> >> Do you happen to have the bug number handy so I can please track it? Guess >> it's on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ but failed to find it. >> >> Thank you, >> > > Its the first item when searching for: "xft emoji bug". > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1498269
It feels like the source for this ominous crash has finally been found after what feels like an eternity. According to the bug report there won't be a fix in Xft any time soon though since they suggest to people to just not use Xft... Cheers, Silvan
