starting "emacs -nw" in a konsole (KDE terminal emulator) running in UTF-8-Mode and a UTF-8 environment and typing a german lower double quote ('„') (which konsole can display) gives (gdb-output):
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1218742816 (LWP 15659)] 0x0811f250 in x_get_string_resource () #0 0x0811f250 in x_get_string_resource () No symbol table info available. #1 0x0811f84a in face_for_char () No symbol table info available. #2 0x081e69ff in font_at () No symbol table info available. #3 0x0809e15c in string_buffer_position () No symbol table info available. #4 0x0809bc58 in start_display () No symbol table info available. #5 0x080a0b9d in set_iterator_to_next () No symbol table info available. #6 0x0809fd3d in get_next_display_element () No symbol table info available. #7 0x080b0524 in highlight_trailing_whitespace () No symbol table info available. #8 0x080ae407 in row_containing_pos () No symbol table info available. #9 0x080abc81 in set_vertical_scroll_bar () No symbol table info available. #10 0x080a8a16 in disp_char_vector () No symbol table info available. 11 0x0819c271 in internal_condition_case_1 () No symbol table info available. #12 0x080a7e55 in check_point_in_composition () No symbol table info available. #13 0x080a6c52 in redisplay () No symbol table info available. #14 0x0813b435 in read_char () No symbol table info available. #15 0x08141fea in tool_bar_items () No symbol table info available. #16 0x08138159 in command_loop_1 () No symbol table info available. #17 0x0819c15b in internal_condition_case () No symbol table info available. #18 0x08137cfe in command_loop_2 () No symbol table info available. #19 0x0819bc6b in internal_catch () No symbol table info available. #20 0x08137ca3 in command_loop () No symbol table info available. #21 0x081376d4 in recursive_edit_1 () No symbol table info available. #22 0x08137801 in Frecursive_edit () No symbol table info available. #23 0x08135d12 in main () No symbol table info available. Undefined command: "xbacktrace". Try "help" The source has been hacked by me, to make font-backend default. In GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.4) of 2007-01-17 on luthien, modified by Debian (Debian emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20070115-1) X server distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40300001 configured using `configure '--build' 'i386-linux' '--host' 'i386-linux' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.0/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.0.0/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.0.0/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--enable-font-backend' '--with-xft' '--with-freetype' 'build_alias=i386-linux' 'host_alias=i386-linux' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: <help-echo> M-x r e p o <tab> r t <tab> <return> Recent messages: Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50psvn.el (source)...done Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50sawfish.el (source)...done Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50yacas.el (source)...done Loading calendar... Loading regexp-opt...done Loading calendar...done For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. [2 times] Making completion list... Loading help-mode...done Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug