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Title: Dejavu Sans crashes applications for specific characters Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome: Unknown Status in Pango - Layout and Text Rendering LIbrary: Unknown Status in “ttf-dejavu” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: There are specific characters in Dejavu Sans that make applications to crash. Specifically, the characters ΐ and ΰ (Greek characters), when written or displayed in GTK+ applications, causes them to crash. It is important that the Dejavu Sans font is used for the crash to take place. To replicate: 1. Open gedit (preferably from gnome-terminal) 2. Pick the test file from http://www.gnome.gr/docs/testtext.txt When pasting from Firefox, change first the encoding to Unicode (UTF-8), as the Firefox autodetection changes this to Cyrillic. Alternative, do wget http://www.gnome.gr/docs/testtext.txt 3. Configure the preferences in Gedit to use Dejavu Sans (or Sans), which is the default in Dapper. 4. Load testtext.txt into gedit (use File/Open, or even "gedit testtext.txt"). 5. In most cases, gedit crashes straight away. You may get the message *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0821dc90 *** in gnome-terminal. In other cases, you get no output. 6. The last line of testtext.txt has the ΐ ΰ characters; the bug appears even as soon as you type this characters in a new document. Items that remain to be checked A. What other applications can exhibit this bug? B. Is it only "gedit" or is it only "GTK+ based editors", is it also applications that display a string with these characters? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/31910/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux.sch.gr Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux.sch.gr More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
