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.
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 ***