bug#38569: 27.0.50; Certain emoji crashes with "X protocol error: BadLength"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Robert Cochran <robert@cochranmail.com>,  shelvacu@gmail.com,
>   robert-emacs@cochranmail.com,  38569@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:01:16 +0100
> 
>     Eli> The problem is that AFAIR the "font renderer" that is to blame in 
> this
>     Eli> case is XFT, and it doesn't seem to be actively maintained lately.
>     Eli> (Robert Pluim will correct me if I'm wrong.)  That's why we are using
>     Eli> the face-ignored-fonts workaround.
> 
> Thatʼs correct. The real solution is 'stop using XFT', but I donʼt
> think we can require cairo just yet, much as Iʼd like to do so.
> 
> Eli, we could install my patch to filter out all colour fonts (see
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2019-11/msg00409.html>),
> that should reduce the amount of whack-a-mole required.

I guess that's okay to install, given the problems, thanks.