Bug 366221

Summary: Kate for OS X crash when typing a special character
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: notengobattery
Component: applicationAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: crash CC: christoph
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: macOS (DMG)   
OS: macOS   
URL: http://pastebin.com/CZ1HnjSX
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description notengobattery 2016-07-28 22:51:41 UTC 
Kate on OS X crash while typing a special character, specifically the '¡' character (I have not found others, '¿', for example, works great). This does not happen always, it only happens when the line is not empty.

More specifically, this does not happens on empty lines and in lines filled with spaces and/or tabs. In such cases, Kate does not crash but also does not writes the '¡' symbol.

I can copy the symbol from another source and paste it in Kate and the symbol is pasted successfully. If you are using the English Macintosh keyboard on OS X, you can get the symbol by pressing ⌥1.

The version of Kate is Version 16.07.70 (does not appears in the bug report selector).

Pastebin from Apple Bug Reporter: http://pastebin.com/CZ1HnjSX

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open any file on Kate (even a "New file").
2. Type some text or find a non-empty line.
3. Press ⌥1 in that line.

Actual Results:  
Kate crash and the Apple Bug Reporter shows asking for report problems with Kate to Apple.
If Kate does not crash, the symbol is not wrote to the text.

Expected Results:  
The '¡' symbol should be wrote to the text when pressing ⌥1.
Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2017-12-20 21:11:13 UTC 
Fixed with:

commit 8666aaab8eac67a2e377d80275e1c6a2860b5a6f
Author: Kåre Särs <kare.sars@iki.fi>
Date:   Fri Nov 11 21:54:59 2016 +0200

    Do not crash when looking-up a word without the project tool-view
    
    BUG: 371976

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 371976 ***