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Error when filename has an emoji

cwfoo opened this issue · comments

commented

sxiv '🦊.png' fails with:

X Error of failed request:  BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error)
  Major opcode of failed request:  139 (RENDER)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  20 (RenderAddGlyphs)
  Serial number of failed request:  401
  Current serial number in output stream:  414

sxiv version: 26
OS: Ubuntu 20.04

commented

I don't think this has anything to do with sxiv, but rather the Xft issue regarding emojis.

Should work if you install the libxft-bgra library, but you are on Ubuntu so that's not really an option.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libxft-bgra/

It is pending this merge (but who knows if that will ever happen):
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft/-/merge_requests/1