bug#59861: 27.1; seg fault using utf8 char in text

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 20:00:17 +0100
> From: Markus von der Heyde <markus.von.der.heyde@gmail.com>
> 
> No crash here, neither in Emacs 27.1 nor in the what will soon be Emacs 29.
> 
> Hi Eli,
> 
> have you tried to load the attached <crash.txt> file or just typed an "*" aka 
> ASCII42?

I visited the file you attached.

> The star (∗) was some utf8 char (!= *). I have no quick way to name the 
> actual utf-8 code... sorry.

It's U+2217.

Did you try using a different font, or forcing a non-default font backend?

And which version of HarfBuzz do you have installed?