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KevinH · 01-26-2015, 11:51 PM

Hi,
I am betting his original ecoding used a smart quote for "don't" and got mangled in conversions from latin-1 or windows cp1251 to utf-8 resulting in garbage chars. In the unicode standard there are actually many different chars that look exactly like < and > but do not have the same codepoints.

But on the other hand it could be a real < or > and that would confuse the editor but it should not crash.

This crash also could easily be one of the bugs already fixed or worked around in webkit. I think our best thing is to wait for 0.8.3 and see if that fixes the problem. If so, great, if not, we can try to track it down further getting more info from the Windows crash reporter.

KevinH

01-26-2015, 11:51 PM	#27
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,878 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Hi, I am betting his original ecoding used a smart quote for "don't" and got mangled in conversions from latin-1 or windows cp1251 to utf-8 resulting in garbage chars. In the unicode standard there are actually many different chars that look exactly like < and > but do not have the same codepoints. But on the other hand it could be a real < or > and that would confuse the editor but it should not crash. This crash also could easily be one of the bugs already fixed or worked around in webkit. I think our best thing is to wait for 0.8.3 and see if that fixes the problem. If so, great, if not, we can try to track it down further getting more info from the Windows crash reporter. KevinH