On Monday, 2020-11-02 at 04:26:27 -08, David Mazieres wrote: > dm-list-email-notmuch@scs.stanford.edu writes: > >> I just installed the ttf-symbola package from AUR and ran fc-cache (not >> sure if necessary). Now the problem is completely gone. Not only that, >> but I even get the little memo symbol instead of a box with the hex code >> point number. >> >> Thank you so much! This was driving me nuts for months. > > Sadly, I spoke too soon. This does fix the particular problem that I > posted, and makes the situation better, but I'm still getting occasional > lockups, presumably because symbola does not cover every possible > symbol. For example, I had another email containing U+8BDD (CJK UNIFIED > IDEOGRAPH-8BDD), and this one still caused my emacs to spin for many > minutes, before displaying a box with 8BDD in it. That one is from: -isas-song ti-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-gb2312.1980-0 though I'm not sure which package provides that. > So unfortunately the problem seems to be that any character not > supported by an installed font takes about 2-5 minutes of CPU time to > resolve. And of course most characters that I'd use are in installed > fonts, except that I can control what's in the emails I receive, so this > makes notmuch very painful to use. But if no one else is running into > the problems, then I may be able to get around it by installing whatever > fonts other people have installed. I don't seem to have the root problem - that unknown characters cause a delay. I get the hex-filled box immediately. dme. -- Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts. _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-leave@notmuchmail.org