Re: 23.0.60; peculiar error: "invalid font property", (:spacing . iso8859)

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>> peculiar error: "invalid font property", (:spacing . iso8859)
>> >
>> > Google will give you the appended answer [...]

>> Shouldn't Emacs handle it more gracefully?  A this error has been in
>> at least one release of openSUSE, many people will suffer from this
>> problem and the error message is hard to understand.

> How about this change?

> *** fontset.el.~1.79.~        2008-02-25 10:39:54.000000000 +0900
> --- fontset.el        2008-03-20 21:25:44.000000000 +0900
> ***************
> *** 938,944 ****
>       fontset-spec)
>       (while (setq fontset-spec (x-get-resource (format "fontset-%d" idx)
>                                             (format "Fontset-%d" idx)))
> !       (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec fontset-spec t 'noerror)
>         (setq idx (1+ idx)))))
  
>   ;;
> --- 938,946 ----
>       fontset-spec)
>       (while (setq fontset-spec (x-get-resource (format "fontset-%d" idx)
>                                             (format "Fontset-%d" idx)))
> !       (condition-case nil
> !       (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec fontset-spec t 'noerror)
> !     (error (message "Fontset-%d: invalid specification" idx)))
>         (setq idx (1+ idx)))))

That'd be much better, yes.  Maybe even mention "in X resources".


        Stefan