bug#12050: 23.3; font trashes mode-line file name

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

joseph@photosessionsltd.com writes:

> with src/xdisp.c 22736 fix (24.1 line numbers differ by ~300 but context
> is correct):
>
> run -q -fn -adobe-times-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> does not crash emacs but mode-line is completely undecipherable. each char
> appears to have an octal representation of a char inside a rectangular box

Are you still seeing these problems in modern versions of Emacs?

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