On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 9:31 AM, Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo_AT_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
Received on Mon Jul 23 2018 - 17:41:43 CEST