Lech Lorens wrote:
> I finally managed to find the source of the crashes I've been
> experiencing in console Cygwin Vim. The attached patch fixes the problem
> (not checking the result of XmbTextListToTextProperty() call) as well as
> removes some compilation warnings on Cygwin.
>
> I wonder if this might be related to what Yegappan reported in "Vim
> crashes when selecting more than 262040 characters" on April 12th.
> I wonder if there are more places where invalid locale setting will
> cause such problems.
>
> Here's how to reproduce:
> 1. start a Cygwin X server,
> 2. start a terminal emulator (mintty in my case; haven't checked in
> Xterm) and set locale there to something invalid (in my case at some
> point LC_ALL=C.utf8 started to be incorrect but I never bothered to
> change it),
> 3. in the terminal start Vim and make sure that it connects to the
> X server (we will be using the clipboard),
> 4. enter some text, enter the visual mode and more some of the text,
> 5. open MS Notepad and press Ctrl-V (paste),
> 6. your console Vim has just crashed.
Thanks, I'll include the patch.
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