Hello,
I use mutt and happened to receive an email that caused st to crash. It turned out that the email contained a unicode emoji character for which I didn't have a suitable font.
The character in question was U+1F917. I was able to reproduce the crash in st by cat-ing a file containing the single bad character. Pasting it from the X clipboard also reliably causes the crash.
This is the error that is produced:
X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error)
Major opcode of failed request: 139 (RENDER)
Minor opcode of failed request: 20 (RenderAddGlyphs)
Serial number of failed request: 1442
Current serial number in output stream: 1454
I'm guessing that somewhere a 'missing glyph' error isn't getting checked, but I wasn't able to find the relevant code from a quick perusal.
Anyway, the same issue seems to exist in dmenu. As a sanity check, I checked against the following:
1) different X terminal, i.e. xterm,
2) different character with missing glyph, i.e. U+1F642, and
3) installing a font with the appropriate glyphs, i.e. Symbola.
As far as I can tell, the crash reliably occurs in st when attempting to display a character that has no associated glyph. As a workaround, I was able to install the Symbola font which
apparently contains several unicode emoji.
Received on Fri Jul 28 2017 - 07:44:53 CEST