gnus crashes X on foreign characters

gnus crashes X on foreign characters

[jmv]

I am using Fedora Core 4 with Gnus 5.10.7 and XEmacs.

Whenever I get a spam email that has foreign characters and try to show
it
in the Summary buffer then X crashes and takes everything down with it.

The Xorg.0.log says

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

and there are no more hints.

Does anyone know how I can make Gnus stop trying to display foreign
characters?

BTW, it didn't crash on FC3. I guess it is a font issue.

Thanks
jmv

Re: gnus crashes X on foreign characters

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Sep 19 2005, jmv wrote:

> I am using Fedora Core 4 with Gnus 5.10.7 and XEmacs.
>
> Whenever I get a spam email that has foreign characters and try to
> show it in the Summary buffer then X crashes and takes everything
> down with it.

Probably a bug in the X server or in freetype.

Heino Tiedemann reported a similar problem on xemacs-beta in July, see
this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta/20042

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Re: gnus crashes X on foreign characters

[jmv]

Thanks. It appears that this is a known bug with xorg. But, since I
don't know
when they are going to fix it Im looking for a workaround.

Is there any way to tell gnus not to make-font-instance for certain
(foreign) fonts?
Any way to limit the set of fonts it is allowed to use?

jmv

Re: gnus crashes X on foreign characters

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Sep 21 2005, jmv wrote:

> Is there any way to tell gnus not to make-font-instance for certain
> (foreign) fonts?
> Any way to limit the set of fonts it is allowed to use?

Probably.  But this is XEmacs specific (I don't use XEmacs).  Maybe
someone in comp.emacs.xemacs or on xemacs-beta knows.

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