Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 50c5d56: --with-cairo is no longer experimental

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 08:39:54 +0100
> 
>     Eli> Can't we provide some band-aid to prevent Xft from crashing Emacs?
> 
> We could filter out 'Noto Color Emoji' in gtkutil.c:xg_get_font, but
> the relevant GTK interface is marked as deprecated, so weʼd have to
> match on font name or something. Itʼs not pretty:

If the problem is a single font (or a small number of known fonts), we
could disable them through face-ignored-fonts, conditioned on the
right symbols that identify the problematic build(s).  Does that make
sense?