bug#53477: 28.0.50; what-cursor-position

[Devon Sean McCullough]

; A phase-of-the-moon error

(let ((debug-on-error t))
  (find-file "/tmp/bad-character.el")
  (save-excursion
    (insert #x1F62D))
  (what-cursor-position t))

; always displays information about a popular emoji, but

(let ((debug-on-error t))
  (pop-to-buffer "bad-char")
  (save-excursion
    (insert #x1F62D))
  (what-cursor-position t))

; often bombs instead - as does c-U c-X = but not c-X =

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (cl-assertion-failed ((not (multibyte-string-p 
str)) nil))
  cl--assertion-failed((not (multibyte-string-p str)))
  encoded-string-description(#("😭" 0 1 (charset unicode)) nil)
  describe-char(1)
  what-cursor-position(t)
  (let ((debug-on-error t)) (pop-to-buffer "bad-char") (save-excursion (insert 
128557)) (what-cursor-position t))
  eval((let ((debug-on-error t)) (pop-to-buffer "bad-char") (save-excursion 
(insert 128557)) (what-cursor-position t)) nil)
  elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
  command-execute(eval-last-sexp)


In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0, NS appkit-1671.60 
Version 10.14.6 (Build 18G95))
 of 2021-06-20 built on builder10-14.porkrind.org
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1671
System Description:  Mac OS X 10.14.6

Configured using:
 'configure --with-ns '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application
 Support/Emacs/${version}/site-lisp:/Library/Application
 Support/Emacs/site-lisp' --with-modules'

Configured features:
ACL GMP GNUTLS JSON LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY KQUEUE NS PDUMPER THREADS
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_BE@currency=USD.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs
rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail
rmail-loaddefs auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs
eieio-loaddefs password-cache json map text-property-search time-date
subr-x seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv mm-decode mm-bodies
mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader cl-loaddefs
cl-lib sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils
iso-transl tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks
lisp-float-type mwheel term/ns-win ns-win ucs-normalize mule-util
term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe
tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode
prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu
timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core
term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang
misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms
cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian
cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook
jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice button
loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay
sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
hashtable-print-readable backquote threads kqueue cocoa ns multi-tty
make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 51159 5018)
 (symbols 48 6521 1)
 (strings 32 17717 1875)
 (string-bytes 1 591805)
 (vectors 16 13465)
 (vector-slots 8 175402 12038)
 (floats 8 21 47)
 (intervals 56 198 0)
 (buffers 992 11))