Re: Question about composite.c

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gerry Agbobada <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 15:53:49 +0200
> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> I can confirm the bug is fixed by
> commit fe903c5ab7354b97f80ecf1b01ca3ff1027be446
> Author: Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Sat Feb 8 15:41:36 2020 +0200
> Allow composition of pure-ASCII strings in the mode line
> 
> * src/composite.c (Fcomposition_get_gstring): Allow unibyte strings if
> they are pure
> ASCII, by copying text into a multibyte string.

Thanks, that was my guess.

> If it's possible to backport this commit in emacs 27 I think it would
> save a lot of headaches.

Sorry, the change is somewhat risky, and that's why it went to master.