bug#52067: 29.0.50; string-glyph-split halts on certain emoji strings

[Paul Maragakis]

Excellent---and thanks for the explanation!  
I confirm that the latest Emacs 29 fixes the bug.  
You can close this ticket.

Paul

> On Nov 24, 2021, at 2:30 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> 
> Paul Maragakis <paul.maragakis@icloud.com> writes:
> 
>> The logic in string-glyph-split expects the first two elements in the result
>> from find-composition-internal to give the start and end of a multibyte 
>> grapheme
>> and return nil when there is a regular character at position POS.  However, 
>> this 
>> isn't always the case.
> 
> Yup.  
> 
> Paul Maragakis <paul.maragakis@icloud.com> writes:
> 
>> The following code fixes this bug, though there might be better ways
>> to fix it for someone who understands the domain.
> 
> Thanks.  `find-composition' takes a the LIMIT parameter, and that'll
> make it avoid searching back into the bit of the string that we've
> already handled.  So I did that instead in Emacs 29.
> 
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