bug#59861: 27.1; seg fault using utf8 char in text

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

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>> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 20:00:17 +0100
>> From: Markus von der Heyde <markus.von.der.heyde@gmail.com>
>>
>> No crash here, neither in Emacs 27.1 nor in the what will soon be Emacs 29.
>>
>> Hi Eli,
>>
>> have you tried to load the attached <crash.txt> file or just typed an "*" 
>> aka ASCII42?
>
> I visited the file you attached.
>
>> The star (∗) was some utf8 char (!= *). I have no quick way to name the 
>> actual utf-8 code... sorry.
>
> It's U+2217.
>
> Did you try using a different font, or forcing a non-default font backend?
>
> And which version of HarfBuzz do you have installed?

More information was requested, but none was given within 9 months, so
I'm closing this bug.  If this is still an issue, please reply to this
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