Re: Bad Protocol request 77

[jhd]

> > As you had a recipe for reproducing this, it is probably the œ   
> > character
> > that is either miscoded in the string argument (the  penultimate  
> > argument,
> > an XChar2b *) or it is missing in the font used  for bold.  If you  
> > can print
> > the values in the XChar2b* (the last  argument to XDrawImageString16
> > specifies the length in characters,  i.e. bytes/2) and use xfd to  
> > inspect
> > the font used, you should be  able to tell if all characters in  
> > the XChar2b*
> > are present in the font.
>
> It's indeed missing from the font,

I don't know if Emacs can do much about this.  Perhaps we could  
handle the error somehow, but there might be many characters passed  
to XDrawImageString16 and not drawing all of them would look bad.  If  
it where only one an empty rectangle could be drawn instead.

    Jan D.